U+A6AB "ꚫ" Bamum Letter Pa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A6AB "ꚫ" Bamum Letter Pa is a glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum Kingdom of present-day Cameroon. This specific character represents the syllable or sound "pa," and is part of a larger set of Bamum letters that were used for writing the Bamum language, particularly in historical royal decrees and communications. The script underwent several revisions, known as stages A through F, with this letter belonging to the later standardizations that aimed to simplify and modernize the writing system for wider use.

General Properties

Code Point U+A6AB
Version Added 5.2
Name Bamum Letter Pa
Block Bamum
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꚫ
HTML Hex Encoding ꚫ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x9A 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA6AB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A6AB
C/C++/Java Escape \ua6ab

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