U+A5A6 "ꖦ" Vai Syllable Dhu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖦ
U+A5A6 "ꖦ" Vai Syllable Dhu is a glyph from the Vai script, a syllabary historically used to write the Vai language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "dhu," pronounced with a voiced dental or retroflex sound, and belongs to the broader set of Vai syllables that were standardized in Unicode to preserve the language's written heritage. The Vai script, developed in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele, is notable as one of the few indigenous writing systems in Africa created without direct European influence, and U+A5A6 is part of its modern digital representation for text processing and communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A5A6 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Dhu |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꖦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꖦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x96 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA5A6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A5A6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua5a6 |