U+A55A "ꕚ" Vai Syllable Ta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕚ
U+A55A "ꕚ" Vai Syllable Ta is a glyph representing the syllable "ta" in the Vai script, a writing system historically developed in Liberia during the 1830s for the Vai language, a member of the Mande language family. This character is part of the Vai syllabary, which consists of over 200 characters, each denoting a single syllable, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Vai block (U+A500 to U+A63F) to support digital text representation. In Vai orthography, "ꕚ" is used to write words that include the "ta" sound, contributing to the preservation and modern digital use of this indigenous African script alongside fonts and software that enable its display and input.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A55A |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Ta |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꕚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꕚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x95 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA55A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A55A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua55a |