U+A57E "ꕾ" Vai Syllable Voo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꕾ
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 |