U+A573 "ꕳ" Vai Syllable Hoo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕳ
U+A573 "ꕳ" Vai Syllable Hoo is a glyph from the Vai syllabary, a writing system developed in the early 19th century for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "hoo" and forms part of a rich script that was historically used for correspondence, record keeping, and cultural expression among Vai speakers. As a component of the Unicode Standard’s African scripts block, it enables digital preservation and modern communication of the Vai language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A573 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Hoo |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꕳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꕳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x95 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA573 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A573 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua573 |