U+A6E3 "ꛣ" Bamum Letter Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꛣ
U+A6E3 "ꛣ" Bamum Letter Ma is a glyph belonging to 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 particular letter represents the sound "ma" and is part of the revised Bamum syllabary, which was created by King Ibrahim Njoya and his scribes to document the language and culture of the Bamum people. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Bamum block, enabling its use in modern digital text and preserving the heritage of a writing system that underwent several phases of refinement.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6E3 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Ma |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꛣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꛣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9B 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6E3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6E3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6e3 |