U+A5A3 "ꖣ" Vai Syllable Vu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖣ
U+A5A3 "ꖣ" Vai Syllable Vu is a specific glyph from the Vai script, which was historically used to write the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This character represents the syllable "vu" and belongs to the Vai syllabary, a writing system created in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele. The Vai script is notable for being one of the few indigenous African writing systems developed without direct colonial influence, and each symbol in the syllabary corresponds to a distinct syllable rather than a single consonant or vowel. Today, Unicode encoding helps preserve and digitally enable this culturally significant script for modern use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A5A3 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Vu |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꖣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꖣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x96 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA5A3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A5A3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua5a3 |