U+A572 "ꕲ" Vai Syllable Oon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕲ
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 |