U+A54A "ꕊ" Vai Syllable An Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A54A "ꕊ" Vai Syllable An is a glyph from the Vai script, an indigenous writing system used historically by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone to represent the syllable "an." This character belongs to the Vai syllabary block in Unicode, which encompasses a range of symbols that encode the phonetic sounds of the Vai language. The Vai script, invented in the early 19th century, is one of the few indigenous African scripts with a known origin, and this particular syllable plays a role in accurately transcribing words and preserving the linguistic heritage of the Vai community.

General Properties

Code Point U+A54A
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable An
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꕊ
HTML Hex Encoding ꕊ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x95 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA54A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A54A
C/C++/Java Escape \ua54a

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