U+A544 "ꕄ" Vai Syllable Nggi Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A544 "ꕄ" Vai Syllable Nggi is a symbol from the Vai syllabary, a writing system developed in the early 19th century for the Vai language spoken primarily in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This character represents the specific syllable "nggi" and is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Vai block, which includes a comprehensive set of syllables and logographic signs used to write the Vai language. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital preservation and modern communication of Vai, a language with a rich literary tradition that dates back to its indigenous creation in the 1830s.

General Properties

Code Point U+A544
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Nggi
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꕄ
HTML Hex Encoding ꕄ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x95 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA544
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A544
C/C++/Java Escape \ua544

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