U+A572 "ꕲ" Vai Syllable Oon Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A572 "ꕲ" Vai Syllable Oon is a glyph from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used for the Vai language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents a single spoken syllable, pronounced roughly as "oon," and belongs to a script that was independently developed in the early 19th century to record the Vai language. Part of the Unicode block allocated for Vai syllables, this character helps preserve the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Vai people by enabling digital text representation of their native words.

General Properties

Code Point U+A572
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Oon
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꕲ
HTML Hex Encoding ꕲ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x95 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA572
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A572
C/C++/Java Escape \ua572

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Vai
Script Extensions Vai
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter