What 𖧪 means
It is the Bamum sign transcribed Wue in Phase E.
The Bamum script began taking shape around 1896 in the Bamum kingdom under King Ibrahim Njoya and palace scribes. The earliest surviving manuscripts from its first version date to around 1897. Its first signs included pictures of familiar objects and designs; later revisions removed signs and reassigned values as the system moved toward a syllabary, where signs represent syllables.
Bamum books and records covered history, correspondence, medicine, calendars, maps, and law. In Phase E material, 𖧪 has a reading tied to one stage of this evolving writing system.
Is 𖧪 a modern Bamum letter?
No. It is a historical Phase E form.
The Bamum writing system changed through successive phases, including changes to signs and their values. The same transcription can name distinct glyphs, so identify an older form by the phase used in its source.
Historical; this form belongs in work on older Bamum texts, linguistic study, and script revival.
For a Phase E source, do not replace this with a Wue from another phase.
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Who writes 𖧪
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𖧪 look like a box?
The selected font may lack this Bamum glyph, so it can appear as a box or blank. That changes its display, not the text character.
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How to type or find 𖧪
- Also called
- Wü · Phase E Wue · Bamum Wue
- Search it as
- U+169EA · Bamum Wue character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𖧪\169EACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.