U+A6D3 "ꛓ" Bamum Letter Ngkwaen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꛓ
U+A6D3 "ꛓ" Bamum Letter Ngkwaen is a glyph from the Bamum script, a writing system originally developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Njoya of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon. This specific character represents the syllabic sound "ngkwaen" and is part of a larger set of syllabary characters used to write the Bamum language. Today, it is encoded in the Unicode Standard to preserve and support the digital representation of this historically significant African script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6D3 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Ngkwaen |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꛓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꛓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9B 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6D3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6D3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6d3 |