U+A5B9 "ꖹ" Vai Syllable Nyu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꖹ
U+A5B9 "ꖹ" Vai Syllable Nyu is a glyph from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used for the Vai language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific syllable, pronounced as "nyu", represents a single syllable in the Vai script, which is composed of around 200 distinct characters that each denote a syllable through a combination of a consonant and a vowel sound. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Vai block, enabling its digital representation and use in modern text processing for the Vai language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A5B9 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Nyu |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꖹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꖹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x96 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA5B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A5B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua5b9 |