U+A568 "ꕨ" Vai Syllable Nja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕨ
U+A568 "ꕨ" Vai Syllable Nja is a glyph from the Vai syllabary, a writing system used for the Vai language spoken primarily in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "nja," pronounced with a nasal initial consonant and a vowel sound akin to the "ja" in "jar." It belongs to the Vai block of Unicode, which was encoded to support the preservation and digital representation of this unique African script, originally developed in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele. The character is written with a distinctive shape that combines a curved line and a dot, reflecting the aesthetic conventions of Vai orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A568 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Nja |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꕨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꕨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x95 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA568 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A568 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua568 |