U+A6B7 "ꚷ" Bamum Letter Si Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A6B7 "ꚷ" Bamum Letter Si is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system created in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum Kingdom, located in present-day Cameroon. This letter represents the phonetic sound "si" and was part of a major script reform developed under King Njoya and his scribes, which aimed to preserve the Bamum language and culture. As one of over 400 characters in the modernized Bamum syllabary, it exemplifies the rich linguistic heritage of the Bamum people and is now encoded in digital systems to support the continued use and study of this historic African script.

General Properties

Code Point U+A6B7
Version Added 5.2
Name Bamum Letter Si
Block Bamum
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꚷ
HTML Hex Encoding ꚷ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x9A 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA6B7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A6B7
C/C++/Java Escape \ua6b7

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