U+A6CD "ꛍ" Bamum Letter Lu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꛍ
U+A6CD "ꛍ" Bamum Letter Lu is part of the Bamum script, which was historically used in the Bamum Kingdom, located in present-day Cameroon, to write the Bamum language. This specific character represents a syllable or phonetic sound within the script, which was originally developed in the late 19th century by King Njoya and underwent several stages of simplification. As a result, U+A6CD belongs to a later phase of the script's evolution, encoded in the Unicode Standard to preserve and support digital representation of this unique African writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6CD |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Lu |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꛍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꛍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9B 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6CD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6CD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6cd |