U+A55C "ꕜ" Vai Syllable Dha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕜ
U+A55C "ꕜ" Vai Syllable Dha is a glyph from the Vai script, a syllabic writing system historically used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone in West Africa, representing the syllable "dha" as part of a specific subset of characters within the Vai block of the Unicode Standard. This character, encoded in Unicode version 5.1 in 2008, helps preserve and digitally render the indigenous Vai language, which uses a unique script invented in the early 19th century by Mɔmɔlu Duwalu Bukele, allowing for modern electronic communication and archival of Vai texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A55C |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Dha |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꕜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꕜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x95 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA55C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A55C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua55c |