U+A5AC "ꖬ" Vai Syllable Su Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A5AC "ꖬ" Vai Syllable Su is a character from the Vai syllabary, a writing system used historically by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone to represent the syllable "su" in their language. Part of the Vai block in Unicode, this character is one of many syllabic glyphs that encode the phonetic sounds of the Vai language, which was developed in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele and others. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that digital text and documents can accurately preserve and transmit this West African script, supporting linguistic heritage and modern communication within Vai-speaking communities.

General Properties

Code Point U+A5AC
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Su
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꖬ
HTML Hex Encoding ꖬ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x96 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA5AC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A5AC
C/C++/Java Escape \ua5ac

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