U+A6A7 "ꚧ" Bamum Letter O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꚧ
U+A6A7 "ꚧ" Bamum Letter O is a character from the Bamum script, which was historically used to write the Bamum language spoken in Cameroon, and belongs to a syllabic writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Ibrahim Njoya and his scribes. This specific letter represents a consonant vowel combination, functioning as a syllable in the Bamum script, and is part of the modern phase of the script known as "Bamum B" or the revised alphabet. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard helps preserve and digitally encode this West African writing system, enabling modern electronic text representation and cultural heritage documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6A7 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter O |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꚧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꚧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9A 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6A7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6A7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6a7 |