U+A6D5 "ꛕ" Bamum Letter Nga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꛕ
U+A6D5 "ꛕ" Bamum Letter Nga is a glyph from the Bamum script, which was created in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Ibrahim Njoya of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon. This specific letter represents the "ng" sound, as in the English word "sing," and was part of a significant writing system reform that simplified the original 500+ character syllabary into a more efficient alphabet. The Bamum script holds cultural and historical importance as a rare example of an indigenous African writing system developed without direct external influence, and it is now preserved in the Unicode Standard to support modern digital use and scholarly research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6D5 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Nga |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꛕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꛕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9B 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6D5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6D5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6d5 |