U+A6B9 "ꚹ" Bamum Letter Seux Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A6B9 "ꚹ" Bamum Letter Seux is part of the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language spoken in what is now Cameroon. This specific character, named Seux, represents a syllabic sound used in the historical orthography of the Bamum script during its evolution from a pictographic to a more phonetic system. It was encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Bamum block, supporting the preservation and digital use of this culturally significant African script.

General Properties

Code Point U+A6B9
Version Added 5.2
Name Bamum Letter Seux
Block Bamum
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꚹ
HTML Hex Encoding ꚹ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x9A 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA6B9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A6B9
C/C++/Java Escape \ua6b9

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