U+A59A "ꖚ" Vai Syllable Wun Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖚ
U+A59A "ꖚ" Vai Syllable Wun is a glyph from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone in West Africa. This specific character represents the syllable "wun" and is part of the Vai script's syllabic inventory, which was originally devised in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele. The Vai script is notable for being one of the few indigenous African writing systems to have been created without direct European influence, and U+A59A contributes to the digital representation of this important cultural and linguistic heritage, allowing for its use in modern text and computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A59A |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Wun |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꖚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꖚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x96 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA59A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A59A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua59a |