U+A556 "ꕖ" Vai Syllable Mgba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕖ
U+A556 "ꕖ" Vai Syllable Mgba is a glyph from the Vai syllabary, a writing system developed in the early 19th century for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "mgba," and it belongs to a block of Unicode encoded in 2006 to preserve and digitally support the Vai script, which is one of the few indigenous African scripts with a clear historical origin. The character is used in written Vai for cultural and linguistic expression, contributing to the preservation of the language's literary heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A556 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Mgba |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꕖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꕖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x95 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA556 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A556 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua556 |