U+A5C2 "ꗂ" Vai Syllable Bho Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A5C2 "ꗂ" Vai Syllable Bho is a character from the Vai script, which is used to write the Vai language spoken primarily in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific glyph represents the syllable "bho," a phonetic unit in the Vai writing system, which was standardized in the Unicode Standard as part of the Vai block. The Vai script is a syllabary, meaning each character stands for a full syllable, and it was devised in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele, making it one of the few indigenous African scripts with a known inventor and a rich literary tradition.

General Properties

Code Point U+A5C2
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Bho
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꗂ
HTML Hex Encoding ꗂ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x97 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA5C2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A5C2
C/C++/Java Escape \ua5c2

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