U+A6F4 "꛴" Bamum Colon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꛴
U+A6F4 "꛴" Bamum Colon is a punctuation mark from the Bamum script, which was historically used to write the Bamum language of present-day Cameroon. This character functions as a colon, indicating a pause or introducing a list, explanation, or related thought in written text. Part of the Bamum block in Unicode, it was encoded to support the preservation and digital representation of the script, which underwent several reforms by King Njoya in the early 20th century. Its appearance is a distinctive vertical pair of dots, visually similar to the standard colon but encoded specifically for compatibility with Bamum typographic conventions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6F4 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Colon |
| 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 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6F4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6F4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6f4 |