U+A5AF "ꖯ" Vai Syllable Zhu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖯ
U+A5AF "ꖯ" Vai Syllable Zhu is a glyph from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically created in the early 19th century by Momolu Duwalu Bukele for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "zhu," a sound within the Vai language's phonology, and is part of the larger block of Vai syllabary symbols encoded in the Unicode Standard to support digital representation of this West African script. The character is used primarily in written Vai texts, contributing to the preservation and modern digital communication of the language and its cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A5AF |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Zhu |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꖯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꖯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x96 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA5AF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A5AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua5af |