U+A6CF "ꛏ" Bamum Letter Ni Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A6CF "ꛏ" Bamum Letter Ni is a glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language spoken in what is now Cameroon. This particular letter, named "Ni," represents a specific consonant sound within the script's original 1896 phase, known as the "Bamum A" stage, which was part of a series of reforms initiated by King Njoya to create a simpler and more practical alphabet for recording royal histories, legal codes, and everyday communication. As a member of the Bamum Unicode block, "ꛏ" serves to preserve the cultural heritage and linguistic identity of the Bamum people in digital environments, enabling their written traditions to be accurately rendered and transmitted in modern computing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+A6CF
Version Added 5.2
Name Bamum Letter Ni
Block Bamum
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꛏ
HTML Hex Encoding ꛏ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x9B 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA6CF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A6CF
C/C++/Java Escape \ua6cf

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