U+A50A "ꔊ" Vai Syllable Mgbee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꔊ
U+A50A "ꔊ" Vai Syllable Mgbee is a glyph from the Vai script, which was developed in the early 19th century in Liberia and Sierra Leone for writing the Vai language. This specific character represents a syllable pronounced as "mgbee" and is part of a larger syllabary that was one of the few indigenous writing systems created in sub-Saharan Africa without direct outside influence. The Vai script features a distinct set of characters for each syllable, and "ꔊ" reflects the language's phonetic structure, contributing to the preservation of Vai cultural heritage and literacy in modern digital environments through its inclusion in Unicode.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A50A |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Mgbee |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꔊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꔊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x94 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA50A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A50A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua50a |