U+A6C2 "ꛂ" Bamum Letter Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꛂ
U+A6C2 "ꛂ" Bamum Letter Ya is a character from the Bamum script, a writing system created in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Ibrahim Njoya of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon, and it represents a specific syllable or sound in the Bamum language. This particular letter, named "Ya," is part of the first phase of the script's development, which was curated and standardized in the Unicode standard to preserve and digitally support this historically significant African writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6C2 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Ya |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꛂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꛂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9B 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6C2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6C2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6c2 |