U+A55E "ꕞ" Vai Syllable La Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕞ
U+A55E "ꕞ" Vai Syllable La is a glyph from the Vai script, a syllabary historically used to write the Vai language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "la," one of many syllabic units in the Vai writing system, which was developed in the early 19th century and is notable for its unique indigenous origin. The Vai script encodes a wide range of syllables, and "ꕞ" is used in conjunction with other characters to transcribe the phonetic sounds of the Vai language, contributing to the preservation and written communication of this West African linguistic tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A55E |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable La |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꕞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꕞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x95 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA55E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A55E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua55e |