U+A6DD "ꛝ" Bamum Letter Pi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꛝ
U+A6DD "ꛝ" Bamum Letter Pi is a glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system historically used for the Bamum language in present-day Cameroon, and was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries under King Njoya. This specific character represents the consonant sound "pi" and belongs to a large syllabary that was part of a significant cultural and intellectual endeavor to document and preserve the Bamum people's language and history. Today, while the script has largely been replaced by the Latin alphabet in everyday use, Unicode encoding helps ensure that this letter, along with the rest of the Bamum script, remains digitally accessible for linguistic study and cultural heritage projects.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6DD |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Pi |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꛝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꛝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9B 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6DD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6DD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6dd |