U+A5A9 "ꖩ" Vai Syllable Ru Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A5A9 "ꖩ" Vai Syllable Ru is a glyph from the Vai script, a syllabary historically used to write the Vai language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This character represents the syllable "ru" and is part of the Vai block, which encodes a range of syllables and logograms from this indigenous West African writing system. As a functional unit of the script, it contributes to the representation of Vai phonology, helping to preserve and document the language through digital and typographic mediums, and is utilized in modern contexts for text processing, cultural heritage preservation, and linguistic research.

General Properties

Code Point U+A5A9
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Ru
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꖩ
HTML Hex Encoding ꖩ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x96 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA5A9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A5A9
C/C++/Java Escape \ua5a9

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