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 |