U+A5A9 "ꖩ" Vai Syllable Ru Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖩ
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 |