U+A6D7 "ꛗ" Bamum Letter Puae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꛗ
U+A6D7 "ꛗ" Bamum Letter Puae is part of the Bamum script, a writing system historically used in the Kingdom of Bamum in present-day Cameroon. This letter "Puae" represents a specific syllabic sound within the script, which was originally developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Njoya and his scholars. The Bamum script evolved through several stages, and the character "ꛗ" is included in the modern standardized version of the script, which is encoded in the Unicode Bamum block (U+A6A0 to U+A6FF) for digital text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6D7 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Puae |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꛗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꛗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9B 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6D7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6D7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6d7 |