What ꛪ means
In a Bamum word, it is a syllable; in a numeral, it stands for five.
Work on the Bamum script began around 1896. Surviving letters and an agricultural calendar date to 1906–1908; a 1910 overhaul produced its compact syllabic set. King Njoya’s court developed it to write Bamum and handle administration. Colonial suppression later pushed it from institutional writing toward heritage use. Scholars compare its syllabic design with the Vai script, another African writing system, though Bamum’s characters were newly made.
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Who writes ꛪ
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsRead it as the syllable tèn.
Questions people ask
1Why does ꛪ show as a box?
A font without Bamum coverage cannot draw it, so the app may show a missing-character box.
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How to type or find ꛪ
- Also called
- tèn · tɛn
- Search it as
- Bamum · Bamoun · Shumom · Akauku · Bamum numeral · Bamum five
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
ꛪCSS
\A6EAUnicode input
In software with Unicode hex input, enter UA6EA and confirm; the shortcut varies by app.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ꛪ
HTML hex
ꛪ
CSS content
content: "\A6EA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%9B%AA
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.