What 𖨀 means
Its reading depends on surrounding Bamum text. Phase E is an older stage of writing for the Bamum language of western Cameroon. King Ibrahim Njoya and palace advisers began developing it around 1896; a manuscript from 1897 is early evidence. Early signs represented objects and actions, then simplified into a syllabary, a system whose signs represent syllables. Bamum writing served palace records, history, law, maps, medicine and schools. Phase E came before the later A-ka-u-ku form. A possible influence from Vai, another West African syllabic script, has been proposed. A font without this glyph may show a box.
Historical writing, mainly useful when reading older Bamum material.
Without surrounding Bamum text, its exact reading is unclear.
Who writes 𖨀
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𖨀 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 𖨀
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- shumom · shü-mom · bamum phase e · bamum syllabary · bamoun script · bamun script
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𖨀\16A00Codes and encoding1 code points
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