U+A5C1 "ꗁ" Vai Syllable Po Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꗁ
U+A5C1 "ꗁ" Vai Syllable Po is a glyph within the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used for the Vai language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This character specifically represents the syllable "po," one of many syllabic signs in the Vai script that was developed in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele. The Vai syllabary is notable for being one of the few indigenous African scripts with a broad historical literary tradition, and the character "ꗁ" contributes to encoding the phonological sounds of the Vai language in digital text systems, ensuring the preservation and accessibility of this cultural heritage in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A5C1 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Po |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꗁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꗁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x97 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA5C1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A5C1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua5c1 |