U+A57E "ꕾ" Vai Syllable Voo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A57E "ꕾ" Vai Syllable Voo is a specific glyph used in the Vai script, which was developed in the early 19th century in Liberia and Sierra Leone to write the Vai language. This character represents the sound /voo/ in the Vai syllabary, a unique writing system where each symbol corresponds to a syllable rather than an individual consonant or vowel. As part of the Unicode Standard, it allows for the digital representation and preservation of this historical African script, ensuring that texts written in Vai can be processed, displayed, and shared across modern computing platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+A57E
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Voo
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꕾ
HTML Hex Encoding ꕾ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x95 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA57E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A57E
C/C++/Java Escape \ua57e

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