U+A6D3 "ꛓ" Bamum Letter Ngkwaen Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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