U+A5AE "ꖮ" Vai Syllable Zu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖮ
U+A5AE "ꖮ" Vai Syllable Zu is a symbol from the Vai syllabary, a writing system developed in the early 19th century for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "zu" and belongs to the Vai block of the Unicode standard, which was added to support the digital encoding of this indigenous script. The Vai script is notable for being one of the few African writing systems created by a single individual, in this case, Momolu Duwalu Bukele, and it is still used today for various purposes, including literature and correspondence.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A5AE |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Zu |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꖮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꖮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x96 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA5AE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A5AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua5ae |