U+A6F3 "꛳" Bamum Full Stop Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A6F3 "꛳" Bamum Full Stop is a punctuation mark from the Bamum script, which was historically used to write the Bamum language of present day Cameroon. This specific character functions as a sentence ending period, marking a complete stop in written Bamum texts, similar to the role of a full stop or period in the Latin alphabet. It is part of the Bamum block in Unicode, which was encoded to preserve and digitally represent this West African script that underwent significant evolution under King Njoya in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

General Properties

Code Point U+A6F3
Version Added 5.2
Name Bamum Full Stop
Block Bamum
General Category Other Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꛳
HTML Hex Encoding ꛳
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x9B 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA6F3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A6F3
C/C++/Java Escape \ua6f3

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 Break After
Script Bamum
Script Extensions Bamum
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Terminal Punctuation Yes
Sentence Terminal Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break STerm