U+A5B3 "ꖳ" Vai Syllable Yu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖳ
U+A5B3 "ꖳ" Vai Syllable Yu is a specific glyph from the Vai script, a syllabary created in the early 19th century in Liberia and Sierra Leone to write the Vai language. This character represents the syllable "yu," pronounced similarly to the English word "you" but with a sharper vowel sound, and is part of a larger set of over 200 distinct syllables in the Vai writing system. The character was encoded in Unicode version 5.1 in 2008 as part of the Vai block, ensuring its preservation and use in modern digital communication for this West African language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A5B3 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Yu |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꖳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꖳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x96 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA5B3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A5B3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua5b3 |