U+A5C8 "ꗈ" Vai Syllable Gbon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꗈ
U+A5C8 "ꗈ" Vai Syllable Gbon is a glyph from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents a syllable pronounced as "gbon," originating from a set of graphemes that were standardized in the early 20th century and later encoded in Unicode to support digital preservation of the script. It belongs to the Vai block in Unicode, where each character corresponds to a consonant-vowel combination, and its form is a distinctive logographic symbol that remains important for linguistic studies and cultural heritage documentation of the Vai people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A5C8 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Gbon |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꗈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꗈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x97 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA5C8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A5C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua5c8 |