U+A58F "ꖏ" Vai Syllable Koo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖏ
U+A58F "ꖏ" Vai Syllable Koo is a symbol from the Vai script, which is used to write the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This particular character represents the syllable "koo," and it belongs to a syllabary where each character corresponds to a specific syllable sound, a system created in the 1830s by the Vai people to document their own language. The Vai script is notable for being one of the few indigenous writing systems in Africa that was developed without direct outside influence, and U+A58F contributes to preserving the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Vai community.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A58F |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Koo |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꖏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꖏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x96 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA58F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A58F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua58f |