U+A51E "ꔞ" Vai Syllable Kee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꔞ
U+A51E "ꔞ" Vai Syllable Kee is a character from the Vai syllabary, a writing system used for the Vai language spoken primarily in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific glyph represents the syllable "kee" within the script, which was devised in the early 19th century by Momolu Duwalu Bukele and is notable for being one of the few indigenous African scripts with a continuous tradition of use. The character is encoded in Unicode to support digital representation and preservation of the Vai language, allowing for accurate textual communication and cultural documentation in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A51E |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Kee |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꔞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꔞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x94 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA51E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A51E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua51e |