U+A6C9 "ꛉ" Bamum Letter Wue Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A6C9 "ꛉ" Bamum Letter Wue is a glyph from the Bamum script, a writing system historically used for the Bamum language in Cameroon. This particular character represents the syllable "wue" and belongs to the modern phase of the Bamum syllabary, which was developed in the early 20th century under the direction of King Ibrahim Njoya to create a more efficient writing system. As part of the Bamum block in Unicode, it is used for preserving and digitally representing the language and cultural heritage of the Bamum people.

General Properties

Code Point U+A6C9
Version Added 5.2
Name Bamum Letter Wue
Block Bamum
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꛉ
HTML Hex Encoding ꛉ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x9B 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA6C9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A6C9
C/C++/Java Escape \ua6c9

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