U+A6AA "ꚪ" Bamum Letter La Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꚪ
U+A6AA "ꚪ" Bamum Letter La is a glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Cameroon region of West Africa. This specific character represents the syllable "la" within the Bamum language, which is part of a larger set of over 500 syllabic symbols originally created by King Ibrahim Njoya. The Bamum script went through several stages of simplification, and this letter belongs to the later, more streamlined versions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6AA |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter La |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꚪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꚪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9A 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6AA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6aa |