U+16973 BAMUM LETTER PHASE-E NGKA

The Unicode character U+16973, officially named BAMUM LETTER PHASE-E NGKA, was introduced in Unicode version 6.0. It is part of the Bamum Sup block, which belongs to the Supplementary Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Letter, this character typically falls under the Bamu script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.