U+A6F5 "꛵" Bamum Comma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꛵
U+A6F5 "꛵" Bamum Comma is a punctuation mark used in the Bamum script, which was developed for writing the Bamum language of Cameroon in West Africa. This specific comma serves as a clause or phrase separator within the script, functioning similarly to a comma in the Latin alphabet but with its own distinct visual form. It is part of the Bamum block of Unicode, which encodes characters from the historical and modern versions of the Bamum syllabary, preserving the linguistic heritage of the Bamum people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6F5 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Comma |
| 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 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6F5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6F5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6f5 |