U+A527 "ꔧ" Vai Syllable Hin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꔧ
U+A527 "ꔧ" Vai Syllable Hin is part of the Vai syllabary, a writing system used for the Vai language spoken primarily in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable pronounced as "hin" and belongs to a set of over 200 syllabic symbols encoded in the Vai block of Unicode, which was added to support the preservation and digital representation of the Vai script. Historically, the Vai script was invented in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele and others, making it one of the few indigenous African writing systems to be created without direct colonial influence.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A527 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Hin |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꔧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꔧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x94 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA527 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A527 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua527 |