U+A5C3 "ꗃ" Vai Syllable Bo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A5C3 "ꗃ" Vai Syllable Bo is part of the Vai script, which was created in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "bo" and belongs to a syllabary where each symbol corresponds to a consonant-vowel combination. The Vai script is one of the few indigenous writing systems in West Africa to have gained widespread local use, and this character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support digital preservation and modern communication of the language.

General Properties

Code Point U+A5C3
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Bo
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꗃ
HTML Hex Encoding ꗃ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x97 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA5C3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A5C3
C/C++/Java Escape \ua5c3

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