U+A6EE "ꛮ" Bamum Letter Kovuu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꛮ
U+A6EE "ꛮ" Bamum Letter Kovuu is a glyph from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in present-day Cameroon by King Njoya of the Bamum people. This specific character, named Kovuu, represents a syllabic unit used in the writing system for the Bamum language, primarily for historical and ceremonial texts rather than everyday modern communication. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally encode a significant piece of African linguistic heritage, allowing scholars and speakers to access and reproduce traditional writings with accuracy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6EE |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Kovuu |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Letter Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꛮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꛮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9B 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6EE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6EE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6ee |