U+A593 "ꖓ" Vai Syllable Noo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A593 "ꖓ" Vai Syllable Noo is a character from the Vai script, a writing system used for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific syllabic character represents the syllable "noo," and it functions as part of a larger set of over 200 Vai syllables that were standardized in Unicode to support digital representation of the language. The Vai script is notable for being one of the few indigenous scripts in West Africa where the writing system was developed independently by speakers of the language, in this case by Chief Momolu Duwalu Bukele in the early 19th century.

General Properties

Code Point U+A593
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Noo
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꖓ
HTML Hex Encoding ꖓ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x96 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA593
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A593
C/C++/Java Escape \ua593

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