U+A55F "ꕟ" Vai Syllable Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕟ
U+A55F "ꕟ" Vai Syllable Ra is a glyph representing a syllable in the Vai script, an indigenous writing system used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone. Specifically, this character corresponds to the sound "ra" and belongs to the Vai syllabary, which was created in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele. The script is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Vai block, which supports the language's rich inventory of syllables and logograms, preserving a vital part of West African cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A55F |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Ra |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꕟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꕟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x95 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA55F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A55F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua55f |