U+A6C0 "ꛀ" Bamum Letter Shu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꛀ
U+A6C0 "ꛀ" Bamum Letter Shu is part of the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language spoken in present day Cameroon. This specific character represents the syllable or phonetic sound "shu" and belongs to the modern or simplified phase of the script, which was revised by King Njoya of the Bamum people to make writing more accessible. As a member of the Bamum block in Unicode, it serves as a vital tool for preserving and digitally encoding the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Bamum community, enabling its use in modern computing and text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6C0 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Shu |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꛀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꛀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9B 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6C0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6C0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6c0 |