U+A6C5 "ꛅ" Bamum Letter Peux Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꛅ
U+A6C5 "ꛅ" Bamum Letter Peux is a specific glyph belonging to the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum Kingdom, which is located in present-day Cameroon. This particular letter, representing the sound "peux," is part of the modern standardized phase of the script, which was refined by King Njoya and his scribes to record the Bamum language. The symbol is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Bamum block, allowing it to be digitally represented and preserved for use in textual contexts, such as historical documentation or linguistic studies, thereby supporting the cultural heritage of the Bamum people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6C5 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Peux |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꛅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꛅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9B 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6C5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6C5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6c5 |