U+A571 "ꕱ" Vai Syllable Oo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕱ
U+A571 "ꕱ" Vai Syllable Oo is a grapheme from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone to transcribe the Vai language. This specific character represents the syllable pronounced as "oo" (a long back rounded vowel sound), and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard’s Vai block, which was added in version 5.1 in 2008 to preserve and facilitate digital use of this indigenous African script. The Vai syllabary, notable for being one of the few indigenous African scripts created in the 19th century without direct outside influence, uses distinct symbols for each syllable, and U+A571 is an essential component of its vowel inventory used in writing Vai words and texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A571 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Oo |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꕱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꕱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x95 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA571 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A571 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua571 |