U+A579 "ꕹ" Vai Syllable Mboo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A579 "ꕹ" Vai Syllable Mboo is a glyph from the Vai script, a writing system historically used for the Vai language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "mboo," which functions as a phonetic unit within the Vai syllabary, a system where each symbol corresponds to a consonant-vowel combination or a standalone vowel or consonant. Designed in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele, the Vai script remains culturally significant today and is encoded in Unicode within the Vai block (U+A500 to U+A63F) to preserve digital representation of the language. The syllable "mboo" is typically employed in writing words that contain the corresponding sound, aiding in the accurate transcription of Vai speech and literature.

General Properties

Code Point U+A579
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Mboo
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꕹ
HTML Hex Encoding ꕹ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x95 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA579
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A579
C/C++/Java Escape \ua579

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