U+A509 "ꔉ" Vai Syllable Kpee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꔉ
U+A509 "ꔉ" Vai Syllable Kpee is a character from the Vai script, a syllabary developed in Liberia and Sierra Leone for writing the Vai language. This specific glyph represents the syllable "kpee" (pronounced with a phonetic k͡p sound, a labial-velar plosive) and is part of a broader set of Vai syllabic characters encoded in the Unicode Standard to preserve and support the digital use of this West African writing system. The Vai script is historically significant as one of the few indigenous African scripts created in the 19th century and is still used today in various cultural and educational contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A509 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Kpee |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꔉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꔉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x94 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA509 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A509 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua509 |