U+16800 "𖠀" Bamum Letter Phase-A Ngkue Mfon Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

𖠀
Source: Noto Sans Bamum Source: Browser Default

U+16800 "𖠀" Bamum Letter Phase-A Ngkue Mfon is a symbol from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon, originally created by King Njoya of the Bamum people. This specific letter belongs to Phase A, the earliest stage of the script's evolution, and its name "Ngkue Mfon" translates to "king's boundary" or a related royal concept in the Bamum language. The character is part of a rich writing system that sought to record the history, governance, and culture of the Bamum kingdom, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard to preserve and enable digital representation of this historical script.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
𖠀
HTML Hex Encoding
𖠀
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x96 0xA0 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD81A 0xDC00
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00016800
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud81a\udc00