U+A6CA "ꛊ" Bamum Letter Pee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꛊ
U+A6CA "ꛊ" Bamum Letter Pee is part of the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Njoya of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon to write the Bamum language. This specific character represents a distinct syllable or phonetic sound within the script, which underwent several stages of simplification from an original pictographic system to a more streamlined syllabary. As a component of the Bamum block in Unicode, it helps preserve and support digital communication for an endangered African script, allowing for modern textual representation of historical and contemporary Bamum language documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6CA |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Pee |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꛊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꛊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9B 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6CA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6ca |