U+A587 "ꖇ" Vai Syllable Soo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A587 "ꖇ" Vai Syllable Soo is a glyph from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone in West Africa. This particular character represents the syllable "soo" and belongs to a set of symbols used to transcribe the phonetic sounds of the Vai language. The syllabary itself was created in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele and is one of the few indigenous African writing systems to have developed independently in modern times. In digital text, this character supports the representation of Vai language in Unicode, helping to preserve and transmit the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Vai community.

General Properties

Code Point U+A587
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Soo
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꖇ
HTML Hex Encoding ꖇ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x96 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA587
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A587
C/C++/Java Escape \ua587

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