U+A506 "ꔆ" Vai Syllable Bhee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꔆ
U+A506 "ꔆ" Vai Syllable Bhee is part of the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used for the Vai language of Liberia. This specific character represents a syllable with the sound "bhee" and belongs to the Vai block of the Unicode standard, which encodes around 300 characters for this script. The Vai syllabary was created in the 1830s and is notable as one of the few indigenous African scripts developed without direct external influence. Today, while its use has declined with the adoption of the Latin alphabet, it remains an important cultural symbol and is preserved in digital contexts through Unicode encoding, allowing for its representation and study in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A506 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Bhee |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꔆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꔆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x94 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA506 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A506 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua506 |