U+A54D "ꕍ" Vai Syllable Han Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕍ
U+A54D "ꕍ" Vai Syllable Han is a symbol from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This character specifically represents the syllable "han," with "ꕍ" being one of many distinct glyphs in the Vai script that denote consonant-vowel combinations. The Vai syllabary was developed in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele and others, making it one of the few indigenous African scripts with a well-documented origin. Encoded in Unicode as part of the Vai block, this character helps preserve the language and cultural heritage of the Vai people, enabling digital text processing and scholarly research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A54D |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Han |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꕍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꕍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x95 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA54D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A54D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua54d |