U+A6DB "ꛛ" Bamum Letter Na Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A6DB "ꛛ" Bamum Letter Na is a component of the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Njoya of the Bamum Kingdom in present-day Cameroon to write the Bamum language. This specific character represents the syllable "na" and belongs to the set of over 500 characters in the script, which underwent several stages of simplification from a complex pictographic system to a more streamlined syllabary. Today, the Bamum script is recognized as a cultural treasure and is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support its preservation and digital use, though its practical usage remains limited due to the widespread adoption of the Latin alphabet in the region.

General Properties

Code Point U+A6DB
Version Added 5.2
Name Bamum Letter Na
Block Bamum
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꛛ
HTML Hex Encoding ꛛ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x9B 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA6DB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A6DB
C/C++/Java Escape \ua6db

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