U+1680B "ð– ‹" Bamum Letter Phase-A Maembgbiee Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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Source: Noto Sans Bamum Source: Browser Default

U+1680B "ð– ‹" Bamum Letter Phase-A Maembgbiee is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system historically used in the Bamum Kingdom of present-day Cameroon. This character represents a syllable or phoneme in the Phase-A version of the script, which was one of the earliest stages of the Bamum syllabary's development under King Njoya in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The letter Maembgbiee is part of a set of characters that were later simplified or reorganized in subsequent phases of the script's evolution, making it a valuable artifact for studying the history of African writing systems. In digital form, this character is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane of Unicode, allowing it to be displayed and processed in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point
U+1680B
Name
Bamum Letter Phase-A Maembgbiee
Alias
BAMUM LETTER PHASE-A MAEMGBIEE (correction)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
𖠋
HTML Hex Encoding
𖠋
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x96 0xA0 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD81A 0xDC0B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001680B
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud81a\udc0b