U+A5BB "ꖻ" Vai Syllable On Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A5BB "ꖻ" Vai Syllable On is a specific glyph within the Vai script, a syllabary used historically by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This character represents the spoken syllable "on" in the Vai language, and it is part of the Vai syllabary block in Unicode, which was encoded to support the digital preservation and modern use of this West African writing system. Its inclusion helps facilitate the representation of Vai texts in electronic form, ensuring that the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Vai community can be accurately documented and shared in digital environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+A5BB
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable On
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꖻ
HTML Hex Encoding ꖻ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x96 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA5BB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A5BB
C/C++/Java Escape \ua5bb

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