U+A52A "ꔪ" Vai Syllable Pi Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A52A "ꔪ" Vai Syllable Pi is part of the Vai syllabary, a writing system developed in the early 19th century by Momolu Duwalu Bukele for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This character represents the syllable "pi" and belongs to the Vai block of Unicode, which was added to the standard in version 5.1 in 2008 to support digital preservation of the language. The Vai syllabary is notable for being one of the few indigenous African scripts with an established history of literacy, and each character like ꔪ encodes a specific consonant-vowel combination, reflecting the phonetic structure of the language.

General Properties

Code Point U+A52A
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Pi
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꔪ
HTML Hex Encoding ꔪ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x94 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA52A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A52A
C/C++/Java Escape \ua52a

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