U+A551 "ꕑ" Vai Syllable Bha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕑ
U+A551 "ꕑ" Vai Syllable Bha is a glyph from the Vai script, a writing system developed in the early 19th century for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This particular character represents the syllable "bha," combining the consonant sound "b" with the vowel "a" in a distinct linear form. As part of the Unicode Vai block, it is used in modern digital text to preserve and facilitate the written communication of this West African language, reflecting a specific phonetic element in its syllabary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A551 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Bha |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꕑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꕑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x95 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA551 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A551 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua551 |