U+A6AB "ꚫ" Bamum Letter Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꚫ
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 |