U+A5C0 "ꗀ" Vai Syllable Won Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꗀ
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 |