U+A5A7 "ꖧ" Vai Syllable Dhhu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖧ
U+A5A7 "ꖧ" Vai Syllable Dhhu is a specific glyph within the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This character represents the syllable "dhhu," part of the language's structured set of syllabic symbols designed to represent the distinct sounds of the Vai language. It belongs to the Unicode block titled "Vai," which was added to the standard to support the preservation and digital representation of this indigenous script. The Vai syllabary, created in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele, is one of the few writing systems in West Africa developed without direct colonial influence, and U+A5A7 contributes to its accurate encoding in modern digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A5A7 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Dhhu |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꖧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꖧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x96 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA5A7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A5A7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua5a7 |