U+A6CC "ꛌ" Bamum Letter Ru Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A6CC "ꛌ" Bamum Letter Ru is part of the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in present-day Cameroon by King Ibrahim Njoya and his scribes to write the Bamum language. This specific character represents the syllable "ru" and belongs to a phase of the script's evolution where it was simplified from an earlier pictographic system into a more streamlined syllabary. The Bamum letter Ru, like all characters in this block, is used in historical and modern contexts for writing the Bamum language, helping preserve a significant cultural and linguistic heritage of the Bamum people. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures digital representation and long-term accessibility for scholars, speakers, and archivists.

General Properties

Code Point U+A6CC
Version Added 5.2
Name Bamum Letter Ru
Block Bamum
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꛌ
HTML Hex Encoding ꛌ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x9B 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA6CC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A6CC
C/C++/Java Escape \ua6cc

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