U+A524 "ꔤ" Vai Syllable I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꔤ
U+A524 "ꔤ" Vai Syllable I is a glyph used in the Vai script, a syllabic writing system historically employed to write the Vai language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This particular character represents the syllable for the sound "i" (pronounced like the long 'e' in "see") and is part of the Vai block of the Unicode standard, which includes numerous syllabic symbols necessary for representing the language's phonemic inventory. The inclusion of U+A524 in digital text systems enables the accurate preservation and representation of this West African language in electronic communications and documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A524 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable I |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꔤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꔤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x94 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA524 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A524 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua524 |