U+A6CB "ꛋ" Bamum Letter Fee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꛋ
U+A6CB "ꛋ" Bamum Letter Fee is part of the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system historically used for the Bamum language in present-day Cameroon, particularly in the Kingdom of Bamum. This specific character represents the syllable "fee" and belongs to the modern, simplified phase of the script, which was developed in the early 20th century under the reign of King Njoya to facilitate literacy among his people. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that digital texts can preserve and transmit this cultural heritage, allowing for the accurate representation of the Bamum language in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6CB |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Fee |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꛋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꛋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9B 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6CB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6CB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6cb |