U+A5C0 "ꗀ" Vai Syllable Won Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A5C0 "ꗀ" Vai Syllable Won is a glyph from the Vai syllabary, an indigenous writing system used for the Vai language of Liberia and Sierra Leone in West Africa. This specific character represents the syllable "won" in the Vai script, which was developed in the early 19th century and is one of the few indigenous African writing systems with a known inventor. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard helps preserve and digitally represent the linguistic heritage of the Vai people, allowing for modern text processing and communication in this syllabic script.

General Properties

Code Point U+A5C0
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Won
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꗀ
HTML Hex Encoding ꗀ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x97 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA5C0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A5C0
C/C++/Java Escape \ua5c0

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