U+A6B4 "ꚴ" Bamum Letter Suu Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A6B4 "ꚴ" Bamum Letter Suu is part of the Bamum script, which was originally developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Njoya of the Bamum people in what is now Cameroon. This specific letter represents the syllable "suu" and belongs to a later stage of the script's evolution, known as Bamum Phase C, which refined the earlier pictographic system into a more streamlined syllabary. The character is used for writing the Bamum language and is encoded in the Unicode Bamum block, helping to preserve and digitally support this historically significant African writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+A6B4
Version Added 5.2
Name Bamum Letter Suu
Block Bamum
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꚴ
HTML Hex Encoding ꚴ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x9A 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA6B4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A6B4
C/C++/Java Escape \ua6b4

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