U+A6C7 "ꛇ" Bamum Letter Ntee Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A6C7 "ꛇ" Bamum Letter Ntee is a glyph from the Bamum script, which was historically used to write the Bamum language of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon. This specific character represents the syllable or sound "ntee" in the Bamum writing system, which was originally developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries under the reign of King Njoya. The Bamum script underwent several stages of evolution before being largely replaced by the Latin alphabet in modern usage, but it remains an important cultural symbol and is encoded in Unicode to support digital preservation of this unique African writing tradition.

General Properties

Code Point U+A6C7
Version Added 5.2
Name Bamum Letter Ntee
Block Bamum
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꛇ
HTML Hex Encoding ꛇ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x9B 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA6C7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A6C7
C/C++/Java Escape \ua6c7

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Bamum
Script Extensions Bamum
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter