U+A6C8 "ꛈ" Bamum Letter Pue Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꛈ
U+A6C8 "ꛈ" Bamum Letter Pue is a character from the Bamum script, which was historically used to write the Bamum language of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon. This specific letter represents the phonetic sound "pue" and is part of the modern stage of the Bamum syllabary, which was revised and simplified in the early 20th century by King Njoya and his scribes. The character is encoded in the Unicode Bamum block, designated for preserving this indigenous African writing system for digital use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6C8 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Pue |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꛈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꛈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9B 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6C8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6c8 |