U+A6C1 "ꛁ" Bamum Letter Yuq Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꛁ
U+A6C1 "ꛁ" Bamum Letter Yuq is a character from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language spoken in present-day Cameroon, particularly in the Kingdom of Bamum. This specific character, "Yuq," represents a distinct syllable or sound within the script, which was originally created by King Njoya and later revised through several stages, including a significant reform that reduced the script's many pictographic characters to a more manageable syllabary. Today, U+A6C1 is part of the Unicode Standard's Bamum block, enabling digital preservation and use of this historic West African writing system for linguistic studies and cultural heritage documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6C1 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Yuq |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꛁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꛁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9B 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6C1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6C1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6c1 |