U+A520 "ꔠ" Vai Syllable Gee Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A520 "ꔠ" Vai Syllable Gee is a logogram from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This character represents the specific syllable "gee" in the Vai language, which is part of a larger set of over 200 distinct syllabic characters used to represent the phonetic sounds of the language. The Vai syllabary, invented in the early 19th century by Momolu Duwalu Bukele, is one of the few indigenous African writing systems that remains in modern use, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally support this cultural heritage.

General Properties

Code Point U+A520
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Gee
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꔠ
HTML Hex Encoding ꔠ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x94 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA520
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A520
C/C++/Java Escape \ua520

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