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𖧁

bamum letter phase-e nzuq

Bamum Letter Phase-E Nzuq

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𖧁 is an older Bamum letter, not a word or message. “Nzuq” is a transcription label, not a translation; the surrounding words supply its meaning.

Text symbol

What 𖧁 means

It is a Bamum letter from an earlier phase, not a complete word.

King Ibrahim Njoya and his scribes devised the Bamum script around 1896 for the Bamum language of western Cameroon. It began with signs for objects and actions, then developed through successive phases into Phase G, a syllabary whose characters represent syllables.

“Nzuq” is a scholarly transcription label, not a translation. Bamum manuscripts include histories, medicine texts, maps, letters, and illustrated folktales. Unicode 18.0 (2026) describes these characters as archaic and mainly used by specialist linguists and historians.

Historical and archival in tone.

Who writes 𖧁

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Don't confuse it with

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9
Digit Nine
Unicode's confusables list ties this Bamum letter to the Latin digit 9 (same skeleton); in some fonts the letter can read as a 9.
９
Fullwidth Digit Nine
Fullwidth Digit Nine, a CJK-width copy of 9; the same skeleton match, so it can pass for 9 in some fonts.
𝟗
Mathematical Bold Digit Nine
Mathematical Bold Digit Nine, a styled 9 from the same confusables group; mainly seen in pasted decorative text.

Questions people ask

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Does Nzuq translate as a word?

No. “Nzuq” is a transcription label in the character name, not a translation of the Bamum text around the letter.

How to type or find 𖧁

Search it as
nzuq · bamoun · shumom · old bamum
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 169C1, then AltX to get 𖧁.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “bamum letter phase-e nzuq”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 169c1, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𖧁
CSS
\169C1
Unicode character picker
To type U169C1, search for it in a Unicode character picker. The 2007 Bamum keyboard proposal covered A-ka-u-ku, the modern script, not Phase E.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𖧁
HTML hex
𖧁
CSS content
content: "\169C1";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%96%A7%81
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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