U+A537 "ꔷ" Vai Syllable Li Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꔷ
U+A537 "ꔷ" Vai Syllable Li is a specific glyph from the Vai syllabary, a writing system used historically for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This character represents the syllable "li" and is part of the Vai block of the Unicode standard, which encodes the distinctive script created in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele. As a syllable in the Vai script, "ꔷ" functions as a phonemic unit, contributing to the written representation of the Vai language's tonal and phonetic structure, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately preserve and transmit this indigenous West African writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A537 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Li |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꔷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꔷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x94 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA537 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A537 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua537 |