U+A503 "ꔃ" Vai Syllable Wee Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A503 "ꔃ" Vai Syllable Wee is a character from the Vai script, a writing system historically used for the Vai language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. It represents a specific syllable in the language, pronounced as "wee," and is part of the extensive Vai syllabary that was developed in the 1830s to write the Vai language. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Vai block, which includes hundreds of such syllabic symbols that reflect the phonetic structure of the language. The Vai script is notable for being one of the few indigenous African scripts to be created in modern times without direct influence from European writing systems, and characters like "ꔃ" help preserve the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Vai people.

General Properties

Code Point U+A503
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Wee
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꔃ
HTML Hex Encoding ꔃ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x94 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA503
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A503
C/C++/Java Escape \ua503

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