U+A6D8 "ꛘ" Bamum Letter Fu Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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