U+A5B3 "ꖳ" Vai Syllable Yu Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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