U+16A2C "𖨬" Bamum Letter Phase-F Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖨬
U+16A2C "𖨬" Bamum Letter Phase-F Wa is a glyph from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum Kingdom of present-day Cameroon. This specific character represents the syllable "wa" and belongs to Phase F, which is one of the later stages in the script's evolution, known for its simplified and more standardized forms compared to earlier phases. The Bamum script was devised by King Njoya Ibrahim and his scribes, and Phase F was part of ongoing reforms to make writing more accessible, with this character now encoded in the Unicode standard to preserve and support digital use of this historic African writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16A2C |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-F Wa |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖨬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖨬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA8 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDE2C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016A2C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\ude2c |