U+A52D "ꔭ" Vai Syllable Mbi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꔭ
U+A52D "ꔭ" Vai Syllable Mbi is a glyph from the Vai script, a writing system historically used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone in West Africa. This particular character represents the syllable "mbi," distinguished by an implied or inherent vowel and a specific consonantal onset. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Vai block, which spans from U+A500 to U+A63F to support the digital representation of this script. As part of the Vai writing tradition, U+A52D contributes to the accurate rendering of texts that preserve the language's cultural and historical significance, including its use in literature, correspondence, and modern digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A52D |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Mbi |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꔭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꔭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x94 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA52D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A52D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua52d |