U+A53A "ꔺ" Vai Syllable Ndi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꔺ
U+A53A "ꔺ" Vai Syllable Ndi is a written symbol from the Vai syllabary, a script created in the early 19th century to write the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "ndi," and, like other Vai characters, it is used within the script's inventory of over 200 symbols that denote consonant-vowel syllables. The Vai script is notable for its indigenous origin and its status as one of the few African writing systems developed without direct colonial influence.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A53A |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Ndi |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꔺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꔺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x94 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA53A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A53A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua53a |