U+A585 "ꖅ" Vai Syllable Doo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖅ
U+A585 "ꖅ" Vai Syllable Doo is a glyph from the Vai script, a writing system historically used for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "doo," functioning as a syllabic unit in the Vai language's writing system. The Vai script is notable for being one of the few indigenous writing systems developed in Africa that is still in use today, with its syllabary containing distinct characters for each syllable. The character ꖅ is part of this syllabary and is encoded in the Unicode Vai block, which was added to support the digital representation of this important cultural script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A585 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Doo |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꖅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꖅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x96 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA585 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A585 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua585 |