U+A5B8 "ꖸ" Vai Syllable Nu Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A5B8 "ꖸ" Vai Syllable Nu is a glyph from the Vai script, a syllabary historically used to write the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "nu" and is part of the Vai Syllabary block within Unicode, which was added to support the digital encoding of this West African writing system. Its visual design consists of a single, continuous stroke that curves to form an open loop on the left with a short horizontal line across its top.

General Properties

Code Point U+A5B8
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Nu
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꖸ
HTML Hex Encoding ꖸ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x96 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA5B8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A5B8
C/C++/Java Escape \ua5b8

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