U+A584 "ꖄ" Vai Syllable Roo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A584 "ꖄ" Vai Syllable Roo is a symbol from the Vai script, a writing system used primarily for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "roo" and is part of the syllabic inventory that was standardized in Unicode version 5.1. The Vai script, devised in the early 19th century, is one of the few indigenous African scripts with a known inventor and remains in limited use for writing Vai texts today.

General Properties

Code Point U+A584
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Roo
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꖄ
HTML Hex Encoding ꖄ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x96 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA584
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A584
C/C++/Java Escape \ua584

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