U+1688B "𖢋" Bamum Letter Phase-B Nsen Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

𖢋
Source: Noto Sans Bamum Source: Browser Default

U+1688B "𖢋" Bamum Letter Phase-B Nsen is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon, Africa, by King Njoya of the Bamum people to write the Bamum language. This character belongs to the Phase B stage of the script's evolution, representing a refined phonetic syllable used in the writing system that underwent several revisions before eventually falling out of common use. The character "sen" in Phase B, like other letters in this stage, reflects an intermediate step in the script's simplification from an earlier pictographic form to a more abstract syllabary, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the Bamum Supplement block to preserve and support digital representation of this cultural heritage.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
𖢋
HTML Hex Encoding
𖢋
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x96 0xA2 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD81A 0xDC8B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001688B
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud81a\udc8b