U+A5A2 "ꖢ" Vai Syllable Fu Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A5A2 "ꖢ" Vai Syllable Fu is a character from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific glyph represents the syllable "fu" and is part of the Vai Syllabary block in Unicode, which includes a total of 300 characters that encode the Vai language's phonetic syllables. The syllabary was invented in the early 19th century by Momolu Duwalu Bukele and remains one of the few indigenous African scripts to achieve widespread use.

General Properties

Code Point U+A5A2
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Fu
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꖢ
HTML Hex Encoding ꖢ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x96 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA5A2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A5A2
C/C++/Java Escape \ua5a2

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Vai
Script Extensions Vai
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter