U+A5AC "ꖬ" Vai Syllable Su Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖬ
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 |