U+A52F "ꔯ" Vai Syllable Mgbi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꔯ
U+A52F "ꔯ" Vai Syllable Mgbi is a distinctive glyph from the Vai script, an indigenous writing system historically used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This particular character represents the syllabic sound "mgbi," which is formed by combining the nasal prefix "m" with the consonant-vowel unit "gbi." The Vai script is syllabic in nature, meaning each character stands for a full syllable rather than a single phoneme, and it was developed in the early 19th century, making it one of the few independent writing systems created in Africa in modern times.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A52F |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Mgbi |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꔯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꔯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x94 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA52F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A52F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua52f |