U+A55C "ꕜ" Vai Syllable Dha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Vai
Script Extensions Vai
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter