U+A6A0 "ꚠ" Bamum Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꚠ
U+A6A0 "ꚠ" Bamum Letter A is a typographic symbol from the Bamum script, a writing system originally developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language spoken in Cameroon. This character represents the first syllable or sound in the script, akin to the letter "A" in Latin alphabets, and it was part of a major reform of the Bamum writing system undertaken by King Njoya and his scribes. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures the digital preservation and accessibility of this historically significant African script for modern documentation and communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6A0 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter A |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꚠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꚠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9A 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6A0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6A0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6a0 |