U+A541 "ꕁ" Vai Syllable Nji Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A541 "ꕁ" Vai Syllable Nji is a glyph from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone, and it represents the phonetic sound "nji" in the Vai language. This character is part of a larger set of syllabic symbols that were developed in the 19th century to transcribe the Vai language, which belongs to the Niger-Congo family. As a standardized digital representation, it enables accurate preservation and electronic exchange of Vai text across modern computing platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+A541
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Nji
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꕁ
HTML Hex Encoding ꕁ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x95 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA541
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A541
C/C++/Java Escape \ua541

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