U+A6E2 "ꛢ" Bamum Letter Men Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A6E2 "ꛢ" Bamum Letter Men is part of the Bamum script, a syllabary and set of ideographic and pictographic signs used historically for writing the Bamum language of Cameroon. This specific character represents a syllable or phonetic value within the script, which was devised in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Njoya of the Bamum people to serve as a written form for the kingdom’s oral traditions, administrative records, and cultural texts. The Bamum script underwent several phases of simplification, and the "Men" letter belongs to its later, more streamlined version, reflecting a key piece of West African linguistic and cultural heritage.

General Properties

Code Point U+A6E2
Version Added 5.2
Name Bamum Letter Men
Block Bamum
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꛢ
HTML Hex Encoding ꛢ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x9B 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA6E2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A6E2
C/C++/Java Escape \ua6e2

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