U+A6DF "ꛟ" Bamum Letter Ko Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A6DF "ꛟ" Bamum Letter Ko is a glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum Kingdom, located in present-day Cameroon. This letter represents the consonant sound "ko" and belongs to the stage of the script known as the "A-ka-u-ku" phase, which was a significant reform that reduced the number of characters and introduced a more systematic syllabic structure. The Bamum script was created by King Njoya and his scribes, and it played a crucial role in recording the history, laws, and culture of the Bamum people before being largely supplanted by the Latin alphabet.

General Properties

Code Point U+A6DF
Version Added 5.2
Name Bamum Letter Ko
Block Bamum
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꛟ
HTML Hex Encoding ꛟ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x9B 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA6DF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A6DF
C/C++/Java Escape \ua6df

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