U+16A32 "𖨲" Bamum Letter Phase-F Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖨲
U+16A32 "𖨲" Bamum Letter Phase-F Ma is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon. This character belongs to the later Phase F stage of the script's evolution, which refined earlier phases into a more standardized syllabary used for writing the Bamum language. It represents the syllable "ma" and is encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the Bamum Supplement block, ensuring its digital preservation and accessibility for modern computational use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16A32 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-F Ma |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖨲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖨲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA8 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDE32 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016A32 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\ude32 |