U+A51F "ꔟ" Vai Syllable Nggee Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A51F "ꔟ" Vai Syllable Nggee is a specific glyph from the Vai script, which is used to write the Vai language spoken primarily in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This character represents the syllable "nggee," and it belongs to the Vai syllabary, a writing system that encodes individual syllables rather than single letters. The syllabary was developed in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele and is now supported in the Unicode Standard to preserve and enable digital use of this indigenous African script.

General Properties

Code Point U+A51F
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Nggee
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꔟ
HTML Hex Encoding ꔟ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x94 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA51F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A51F
C/C++/Java Escape \ua51f

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