U+A587 "ꖇ" Vai Syllable Soo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖇ
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 |