U+A6BB "ꚻ" Bamum Letter Ket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+A6BB "ꚻ" Bamum Letter Ket is a glyph from the Bamum script, an African writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum Kingdom, located in present-day Cameroon. This specific letter, named "Ket," represents a consonant sound in the Bamum language and is part of a syllabary revision undertaken by King Njoya, who refined the script over several phases to improve its phonetic accuracy and usability. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard within the Bamum block, ensuring its digital preservation for linguistic and cultural documentation, and it appears as a distinct, stylized symbol that contributes to the rich typographic heritage of the Bamum people.
General Properties
Code Point
U+A6BB
Name
Bamum Letter Ket
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ꚻ
HTML Hex Encoding
ꚻ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0x9A 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA6BB
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A6BB
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua6bb
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Bamum