U+A56D "ꕭ" Vai Syllable Ga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕭ
U+A56D "ꕭ" Vai Syllable Ga is a glyph from the Vai script, an indigenous writing system used for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "ga" and is part of the Vai syllabary, which is classified under the Unicode block ranging from U+A500 to U+A63F for Vai. The script, invented in the early 19th century by Momolu Duwalu Bukele, is notable for being one of the few indigenous African writing systems with a known origin, and each syllable character like "ꕭ" corresponds to a distinct consonant vowel combination in the Vai language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A56D |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Ga |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꕭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꕭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x95 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA56D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A56D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua56d |