U+A54F "ꕏ" Vai Syllable Wan Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕏ
U+A54F "ꕏ" Vai Syllable Wan is a character belonging to the Vai script, which is used to write the Vai language spoken in Liberia and parts of Sierra Leone. This specific syllable represents the sound "wan" and is part of a larger syllabary system developed in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele, making it a significant cultural and linguistic symbol for the Vai people. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support digital representation and preservation of the Vai language, enabling its use in modern computing and communication platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A54F |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Wan |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꕏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꕏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x95 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA54F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A54F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua54f |