U+A6BC "ꚼ" Bamum Letter Nuae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꚼ
U+A6BC "ꚼ" Bamum Letter Nuae is a glyph from the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum Kingdom, located in present day Cameroon. This particular character represents the syllable "nyae" or "nuae," and it belongs to the Bamum Supplement block of the Unicode standard, which was added to support the full range of historical Bamum script characters. The Bamum script, invented by King Njoya, originally began as a pictographic system but evolved into a syllabary, and "ꚼ" is one of its many letters that reflect the language's phonetic structure. Today, the character is used in specialized digital contexts for historical and linguistic documentation of the Bamum language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6BC |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Nuae |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꚼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꚼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9A 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6BC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6bc |