U+A6B7 "ꚷ" Bamum Letter Si Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꚷ
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 |