U+A6D0 "ꛐ" Bamum Letter Reux Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꛐ
U+A6D0 "ꛐ" Bamum Letter Reux is a distinctive glyph used in the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language of Cameroon. This character specifically represents the syllable or sound "reux" and belongs to a later stage of the script's evolution, which was simplified and standardized by the Bamum king Ibrahim Njoya after an initial, more pictographic phase. The letter is part of a Unicode block designed to digitally preserve this historically significant African script, allowing for its use in modern digital communication and scholarship.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6D0 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Reux |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꛐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꛐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9B 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6D0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6D0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6d0 |