U+A6BA "ꚺ" Bamum Letter Kyee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꚺ
U+A6BA "ꚺ" Bamum Letter Kyee is a specific character from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system historically used for the Bamum language in what is now Cameroon. This letter represents a particular phonetic sound, and its design is derived from the rich tradition of Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries under the guidance of King Njoya. As part of the Unicode Standard, it enables digital preservation and accurate representation of this West African syllabary, facilitating linguistic studies and cultural heritage documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6BA |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Kyee |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꚺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꚺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9A 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6BA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6BA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6ba |