U+A6A6 "ꚦ" Bamum Letter Tae Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Bamum
Script Extensions Bamum
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter