U+A537 "ꔷ" Vai Syllable Li Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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