U+A5B8 "ꖸ" Vai Syllable Nu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖸ
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 |