U+A6A6 "ꚦ" Bamum Letter Tae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꚦ
U+A6A6 "ꚦ" Bamum Letter Tae is part of the Bamum script, which was historically used to write the Bamum language spoken in present-day Cameroon. This specific character represents the syllable "tae" in the Bamum syllabary, which was originally developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Ibrahim Njoya. The letter features a distinctive visual shape that aligns with the phonetic and writing conventions of the Bamum system, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this unique African writing tradition for modern use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6A6 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Tae |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꚦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꚦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9A 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6A6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6A6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6a6 |