U+A548 "ꕈ" Vai Syllable Nyi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕈ
U+A548 "ꕈ" Vai Syllable Nyi is a character from the Vai script, which is used to write the Vai language spoken primarily in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "nyi," a sound common in the Vai phonetic system, and it belongs to the block of Vai syllabic characters that were encoded in Unicode version 5.1 in 2008. The Vai script itself is historically significant as one of the few indigenous scripts created in Africa in the 19th century, with this character playing a role in preserving and digitally encoding the language's unique syllabic writing system for modern use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A548 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Nyi |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꕈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꕈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x95 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA548 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A548 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua548 |