U+A505 "ꔅ" Vai Syllable Pee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꔅ
U+A505 "ꔅ" Vai Syllable Pee is part of the Vai syllabary, a writing system used for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "pee" and is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Vai block, which was added to support the preservation and digital use of this indigenous African script. Historically, the Vai syllabary was created in the 1830s and is notable as one of the few original written languages developed in Africa without direct external influence, making characters like "ꔅ" important for linguistic heritage and modern text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A505 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Pee |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꔅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꔅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x94 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA505 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A505 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua505 |