U+A5AA "ꖪ" Vai Syllable Du Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A5AA "ꖪ" Vai Syllable Du is a symbol from the Vai script, an indigenous writing system created in the 19th century for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "du" and is part of the Vai syllabary, which consists of over 200 characters covering vowels, consonants, and syllables. The Vai script is notable for its unique origin, having been invented by Momolu Duwalu Bukele around 1833, and remains culturally significant for preserving and writing the Vai language today.

General Properties

Code Point U+A5AA
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Du
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꖪ
HTML Hex Encoding ꖪ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x96 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA5AA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A5AA
C/C++/Java Escape \ua5aa

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