U+A582 "ꖂ" Vai Syllable Dhhoo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖂ
U+A582 "ꖂ" Vai Syllable Dhhoo is part of the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllabic sound "dhhoo," with the "dh" indicating a voiced dental or alveolar plosive akin to the "dh" in the English word "adhere," and the double "oo" denoting a long vowel sound similar to the "o" in "boot." Within the Vai script, which was devised in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele, each character corresponds to a consonant-vowel syllable, and U+A582 falls among the many characters that enable the precise transcription of Vai's phonetic inventory, supporting the language's use in traditional texts, modern communication, and cultural preservation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A582 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Dhhoo |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꖂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꖂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x96 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA582 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A582 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua582 |