U+A529 "ꔩ" Vai Syllable Win Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A529 "ꔩ" Vai Syllable Win is a character from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "win" in the Vai script, which was developed in the 1830s and primarily consists of syllabic symbols that denote consonant-vowel combinations. The Vai script is one of the few indigenous African writing systems to have been created in modern times without direct external influence, and U+A529 forms part of its inventory of characters used for writing the language's sounds and words.

General Properties

Code Point U+A529
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Win
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꔩ
HTML Hex Encoding ꔩ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x94 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA529
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A529
C/C++/Java Escape \ua529

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