U+A5C3 "ꗃ" Vai Syllable Bo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꗃ
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 |