U+A6D8 "ꛘ" Bamum Letter Fu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꛘ
U+A6D8 "ꛘ" Bamum Letter Fu is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system created by King Njoya of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon around the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This letter, part of a large syllabary that went through several stages of simplification, represents a phonetic sound used in the Bamum language. Today, it serves both as a tool for preserving the cultural heritage and historical record of the Bamum kingdom and as a functional character in modern digital text, allowing for the accurate representation of the language in electronic documents and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6D8 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Fu |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꛘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꛘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9B 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6D8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6D8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6d8 |