U+A507 "ꔇ" Vai Syllable Bee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꔇ
U+A507 "ꔇ" Vai Syllable Bee is a written symbol from the Vai script, which is used to write the Vai language spoken primarily in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "bee" (pronounced with a long 'e' sound as in "beehive") and is part of a larger syllabary that was independently developed by the Vai people around the 1830s. Encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Vai Syllables block, it allows for the digital preservation and accurate rendering of this West African writing system in modern text processing environments, supporting linguistic and cultural heritage documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A507 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Bee |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꔇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꔇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x94 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA507 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A507 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua507 |