U+A6F0 "" Bamum Combining Mark Koqndon Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans Bamum Source: Browser Default

U+A6F0 "" Bamum Combining Mark Koqndon is a diacritical mark used in the Bamum script of West Africa to modify the sound of a base character, specifically indicating a high tone in the historical orthography of the Bamum language. This combining mark is written above the syllable or letter it modifies, and it is part of the extended Bamum block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to preserve the complex writing system developed in Cameroon during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its inclusion ensures that digital text can accurately represent the tonal distinctions essential to the proper pronunciation and meaning of words in the Bamum script.

General Properties

Code Point
U+A6F0
Name
Bamum Combining Mark Koqndon

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
꛰
HTML Hex Encoding
꛰
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0x9B 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA6F0
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A6F0
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua6f0