U+A553 "ꕓ" Vai Syllable Mba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕓ
U+A553 "ꕓ" Vai Syllable Mba is a specific symbol from the Vai syllabary, a writing system developed in the early 19th century for the Vai language, which is primarily spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This character represents the syllable "mba" and is part of a larger block of Vai syllabic characters that encode the phonemes of the language, each corresponding to a distinct consonant vowel combination. Like other Vai syllables, "ꕓ" is used in written texts to preserve and transmit the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Vai people, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital representation and interoperability across modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A553 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Mba |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꕓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꕓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x95 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA553 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A553 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua553 |