U+A550 "ꕐ" Vai Syllable Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕐ
U+A550 "ꕐ" Vai Syllable Pa is a glyph from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "pa" and is part of a larger set of syllabic signs that were created in the early 19th century to write the Vai language. The Vai script is notable for being one of the few indigenous African scripts with a known inventor, and its characters, including "ꕐ," are encoded in the Unicode standard to support digital representation and preservation of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A550 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Pa |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꕐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꕐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x95 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA550 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A550 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua550 |