U+A59E "ꖞ" Vai Syllable Mbu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖞ
U+A59E "ꖞ" Vai Syllable Mbu is a glyph from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone to represent their language. This specific character encodes the syllable "mbu," which contributes to the phonetic inventory of the Vai language, where each symbol stands for a distinct consonant-vowel combination. The Vai script, developed in the 19th century, is one of Africa's few indigenous syllabaries, and characters like U+A59E are essential for preserving and digitally representing this cultural and linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A59E |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Mbu |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꖞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꖞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x96 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA59E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A59E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua59e |