U+A6BB "ꚻ" Bamum Letter Ket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꚻ
U+A6BB "ꚻ" Bamum Letter Ket is a glyph from the Bamum script, an African writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum Kingdom, located in present-day Cameroon. This specific letter, named "Ket," represents a consonant sound in the Bamum language and is part of a syllabary revision undertaken by King Njoya, who refined the script over several phases to improve its phonetic accuracy and usability. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard within the Bamum block, ensuring its digital preservation for linguistic and cultural documentation, and it appears as a distinct, stylized symbol that contributes to the rich typographic heritage of the Bamum people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6BB |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Ket |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꚻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꚻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9A 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6BB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6BB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6bb |