U+A6AE "ꚮ" Bamum Letter Leeee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꚮ
U+A6AE "ꚮ" Bamum Letter Leeee is a glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system historically used in the Bamum Kingdom, located in present-day Cameroon. This specific letter represents a high-frequency syllable or sound in the Bamum language, and it was part of the script’s evolution under King Ibrahim Njoya in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The character belongs to the Bamum block of Unicode, which was added to support the preservation and digital use of this West African writing tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6AE |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Leeee |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꚮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꚮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9A 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6AE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6ae |