U+A6DA "ꛚ" Bamum Letter Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꛚ
U+A6DA "ꛚ" Bamum Letter Wa is a glyph from the Bamum syllabary, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language spoken in Cameroon. This specific character represents the syllable "wa" and is part of the modern, revised script created by King Ibrahim Njoya. Encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the Bamum block, it helps preserve and digitally represent the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Bamum people, allowing for proper text rendering and communication in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6DA |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Wa |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꛚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꛚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9B 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6DA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6DA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6da |