U+A6B6 "ꚶ" Bamum Letter Shii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꚶ
U+A6B6 "ꚶ" Bamum Letter Shii is a glyph from the Bamum script, a writing system historically used for the Bamum language in present-day Cameroon. This specific letter represents a distinct syllable or phonetic sound within the script’s extensive syllabary, which was originally developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Bamum script went through several stages of reform and simplification, and the character “Shii” belongs to one of its later, more streamlined phases. Today, the character is encoded in Unicode to support digital preservation and modern electronic representation of the Bamum language and its rich cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6B6 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Shii |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꚶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꚶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9A 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6B6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6B6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6b6 |