U+A595 "ꖕ" Vai Syllable U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖕ
U+A595 "ꖕ" Vai Syllable U is a symbol from the Vai syllabary, a writing system used historically for the Vai language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "u" and was added to the Unicode Standard as part of version 5.1 in 2008, encoded in the Vai block (U+A500 to U+A63F). It is rendered as a distinctive glyph that contributes to the documentation and digital preservation of a script created in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele, ensuring that the Vai language can be written electronically for modern communication and cultural continuity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A595 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable U |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꖕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꖕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x96 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA595 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A595 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua595 |