U+A57C "ꕼ" Vai Syllable Gboo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕼ
U+A57C "ꕼ" Vai Syllable Gboo is a glyph from the Vai script, a writing system historically used for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "gboo" and belongs to the Vai syllabary, which was originally devised in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele and has since been encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Vai block. The syllable "gboo" is pronounced with a voiced velar plosive sound combined with a long "oo" vowel, and it is used in various Vai words and texts, contributing to the preservation and digital representation of this West African language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A57C |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Gboo |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꕼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꕼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x95 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA57C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A57C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua57c |