U+A500 "ꔀ" Vai Syllable Ee Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A500 "ꔀ" Vai Syllable Ee is a character from the Vai syllabary, a writing system used for the Vai language spoken primarily in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "ee" or "e" with a long vowel sound, and it is part of a larger set of over two hundred syllabic glyphs in the Unicode Vai block. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text in the Vai language can be accurately represented and processed across modern computing platforms, preserving the script's cultural heritage for writing, education, and communication among Vai speakers.

General Properties

Code Point U+A500
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Ee
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꔀ
HTML Hex Encoding ꔀ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x94 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA500
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A500
C/C++/Java Escape \ua500

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Vai
Script Extensions Vai
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter