U+A5A8 "ꖨ" Vai Syllable Lu Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A5A8 "ꖨ" Vai Syllable Lu is a specific character within the Vai script, a syllabic writing system historically used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This character represents the syllable "lu" and is one of many syllabic signs in the Vai script, which was developed in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that the Vai language and its written form can be digitally preserved, displayed, and transmitted across modern computing platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+A5A8
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Lu
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꖨ
HTML Hex Encoding ꖨ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x96 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA5A8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A5A8
C/C++/Java Escape \ua5a8

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