U+A56C "ꕬ" Vai Syllable Ngga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕬ
U+A56C "ꕬ" Vai Syllable Ngga is a glyph from the Vai script, which was historically used to write the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "ngga," a voiced velar nasal sound followed by a vowel, and is part of a larger syllabary system created in the early 19th century. The Vai script is one of the few indigenous African writing systems that was developed without direct colonial influence, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally support the Vai language and cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A56C |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Ngga |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꕬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꕬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x95 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA56C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A56C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua56c |