U+A5BF "ꖿ" Vai Syllable Wo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A5BF "ꖿ" Vai Syllable Wo is a glyph from the Vai script, a syllabary historically used to write the Vai language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. It represents the syllable "wo," which corresponds to a specific sound in that language. The Vai script, known for being one of the few indigenous African writing systems developed without external influence in the 19th century, is encoded in Unicode under the "Vai" block, making the syllable available for digital text and preservation of Vai linguistic heritage.

General Properties

Code Point U+A5BF
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Wo
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꖿ
HTML Hex Encoding ꖿ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x96 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA5BF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A5BF
C/C++/Java Escape \ua5bf

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