U+A538 "ꔸ" Vai Syllable Ri Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꔸ
U+A538 "ꔸ" Vai Syllable Ri is a character from the Vai syllabary, a writing system used for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific syllable, "Ri," represents a consonant-vowel combination and is part of the script's inventory of over 200 characters that are used to write various phonetic syllables. The Vai syllabary was created in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele and is notable for being one of the few indigenous African scripts to have been developed without direct European influence. Character U+A538 sits within the Vai block of the Unicode Standard, enabling digital representation and preservation of this historical and culturally significant writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A538 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Ri |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꔸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꔸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x94 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA538 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A538 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua538 |