U+A596 "ꖖ" Vai Syllable Un Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖖ
U+A596 "ꖖ" Vai Syllable Un is a glyph from the Vai script, a syllabary historically used to write the Vai language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. It specifically represents the syllable "un," consisting of the vowel sound "u" followed by the nasal consonant "n," and is part of a broader system of over 200 characters that were uniquely invented in the 1830s by the Vai people. This character, along with the rest of the Vai block (U+A500 to U+A63F), was added to Unicode in version 5.1 in 2008 to support digital preservation and communication for one of West Africa’s indigenous writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A596 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Un |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꖖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꖖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x96 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA596 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A596 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua596 |