U+A6DE "ꛞ" Bamum Letter Loq Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꛞ
U+A6DE "ꛞ" Bamum Letter Loq is a character from the Bamum script, which was originally developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Kingdom of Bamum, located in present-day Cameroon, by King Njoya and his scribes. This specific letter represents the sound "loq" and belongs to the sixth phase of the script's evolution, known as A-ka-u-ku or the modern stage, where characters were simplified and standardized. As part of the Bamum Unicode block, it facilitates the digital representation and preservation of this unique African writing system, which is used for writing the Bamum language of the Grassfields region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6DE |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Loq |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꛞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꛞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9B 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6DE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6DE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6de |