U+A6AB "ꚫ" Bamum Letter Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+A6AB "ꚫ" Bamum Letter Pa is a glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum Kingdom of present-day Cameroon. This specific character represents the syllable or sound "pa," and is part of a larger set of Bamum letters that were used for writing the Bamum language, particularly in historical royal decrees and communications. The script underwent several revisions, known as stages A through F, with this letter belonging to the later standardizations that aimed to simplify and modernize the writing system for wider use.
General Properties
Code Point
U+A6AB
Name
Bamum Letter Pa
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ꚫ
HTML Hex Encoding
ꚫ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0x9A 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA6AB
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A6AB
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua6ab
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Bamum