U+A6E9 "ꛩ" Bamum Letter Kpa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꛩ
U+A6E9 "ꛩ" Bamum Letter Kpa is part of the Bamum script, a writing system originally created in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Ibrahim Njoya of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon. This character represents the syllable or sound "kpa," contributing to the phonetic representation of the Bamum language. It belongs to the Bamum Supplement block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to support the script's full range of characters, many of which were later simplified or reformed in successive versions of the script. "ꛩ" thus serves as a digital representation of a specific element from this culturally significant African writing tradition, aiding in the preservation and study of Bamum heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6E9 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Kpa |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Letter Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꛩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꛩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9B 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6E9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6E9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6e9 |