U+A552 "ꕒ" Vai Syllable Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕒ
U+A552 "ꕒ" Vai Syllable Ba is a character in the Vai script, a writing system used primarily by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This syllabic glyph represents the syllable "ba" and belongs to a script historically notable for being one of the few indigenous writing systems invented in Africa during the 19th century, created by Momolu Duwalu Bukele in 1833. As part of the Vai syllabary, the character encodes a specific phoneme in the Vai language, which is a Mande language, and is included in the Unicode standard to support digital representation and preservation of this unique cultural script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A552 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Ba |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꕒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꕒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x95 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA552 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A552 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua552 |