U+A6F6 "꛶" Bamum Semicolon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꛶
U+A6F6 "꛶" Bamum Semicolon is a punctuation mark used in the Bamum script, which was developed for writing the Bamum language of Cameroon. This character serves as a sentence-level punctuation, functioning similarly to a semicolon in Latin scripts by indicating a pause or separation between related clauses. It was encoded in Unicode as part of the Bamum block, which supports both the historical and modern versions of the script, aiding in the digital preservation and accurate representation of this West African writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6F6 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Semicolon |
| 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 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6F6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6F6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6f6 |