U+A599 "ꖙ" Vai Syllable Wu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖙ
U+A599 "ꖙ" Vai Syllable Wu is a character within the Vai script, which is used to write the Vai language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific syllable represents the sound "wu" and belongs to a syllabary historically developed in the 19th century, making it a practical glyph for writing Vai words that contain that particular vowel and consonant combination. The character is encoded in the Unicode standard's Vai block, ensuring its digital representation and preservation for modern text processing in a range of computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A599 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Wu |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꖙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꖙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x96 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA599 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A599 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua599 |