U+A519 "ꔙ" Vai Syllable Zhee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꔙ
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 |