U+A580 "ꖀ" Vai Syllable Thoo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖀ
U+A580 "ꖀ" Vai Syllable Thoo is a symbol from the Vai syllabary, a writing system used historically for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "thoo" and is part of the Vai block in Unicode, which encodes over 200 syllabic signs developed in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele. The character appears as a distinctive glyph with a circular and linear design, reflecting the script's unique visual style and its role in preserving the linguistic heritage of the Vai people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A580 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Thoo |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꖀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꖀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x96 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA580 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A580 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua580 |