U+A6DC "ꛜ" Bamum Letter Li Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꛜ
U+A6DC "ꛜ" Bamum Letter Li is a glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon, West Africa. This specific letter represents the syllable "li" and is part of the modern Bamum alphabet, which was revised and simplified from an earlier, more complex pictographic script by King Ibrahim Njoya and his advisors. The character is encoded in the Unicode Bamum block, enabling digital preservation and use of this historic African script, which continues to be studied and revitalized by linguists and the Bamum community today.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6DC |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Li |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꛜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꛜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9B 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6dc |