U+A6E2 "ꛢ" Bamum Letter Men Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+A6E2 "ꛢ" Bamum Letter Men is part of the Bamum script, a syllabary and set of ideographic and pictographic signs used historically for writing the Bamum language of Cameroon. This specific character represents a syllable or phonetic value within the script, which was devised in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Njoya of the Bamum people to serve as a written form for the kingdom’s oral traditions, administrative records, and cultural texts. The Bamum script underwent several phases of simplification, and the "Men" letter belongs to its later, more streamlined version, reflecting a key piece of West African linguistic and cultural heritage.
General Properties
Code Point
U+A6E2
Name
Bamum Letter Men
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ꛢ
HTML Hex Encoding
ꛢ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0x9B 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA6E2
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A6E2
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua6e2
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Bamum