U+A6A2 "ꚢ" Bamum Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꚢ
U+A6A2 "ꚢ" Bamum Letter U is a specific glyph from the Bamum syllabary, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language of Cameroon, primarily in the Bamum script's historical phase A. This letter represents the syllable or sound "u" and is part of a larger set of characters used for writing the Bamum language, which underwent several script reforms before being largely replaced by the Latin alphabet. Today, its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this endangered script, facilitating linguistic research and cultural heritage documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6A2 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter U |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꚢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꚢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9A 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6A2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6A2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6a2 |