U+A519 "ꔙ" Vai Syllable Zhee Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A519 "ꔙ" Vai Syllable Zhee is a specific glyph within the Vai script, an indigenous writing system used historically for the Vai language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This character represents the syllable pronounced as "zhee," with a voiced palatal fricative sound, and it belongs to the larger set of Vai syllabic characters that were devised in the early 19th century. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this unique script, allowing for modern text processing and cultural documentation.

General Properties

Code Point U+A519
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Zhee
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꔙ
HTML Hex Encoding ꔙ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x94 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA519
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A519
C/C++/Java Escape \ua519

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Vai
Script Extensions Vai
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter