U+A58A "ꖊ" Vai Syllable Zhoo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖊ
U+A58A "ꖊ" Vai Syllable Zhoo is a glyph from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable pronounced as "zhoo," and it belongs to the supplementary range of the Vai script, which encodes over 200 syllables for the language. As part of the Unicode Standard since version 5.1 in 2008, it enables digital representation and preservation of the Vai language, supporting cultural and linguistic documentation for a system that was originally developed in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A58A |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Zhoo |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꖊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꖊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x96 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA58A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A58A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua58a |