U+A54E "ꕎ" Vai Syllable Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕎ
U+A54E "ꕎ" Vai Syllable Wa is a character from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and parts of Sierra Leone. It represents the syllable "wa" and is part of a script invented in the early 19th century by Momolu Duwalu Bukele, which is one of the few indigenous African scripts with a known origin story. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Vai block, allowing for digital representation and preservation of the Vai language's written tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A54E |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Wa |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꕎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꕎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x95 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA54E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A54E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua54e |