U+A5A8 "ꖨ" Vai Syllable Lu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖨ
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 |