U+A5C9 "ꗉ" Vai Syllable Fo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꗉ
U+A5C9 "ꗉ" Vai Syllable Fo is a glyph from the Vai script, a syllabary historically used to write the Vai language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "Fo," pronounced with an /f/ sound followed by a mid back rounded vowel. It belongs to the Vai Syllables block of the Unicode standard, which was added to support the digital encoding and preservation of the Vai writing system. The character is composed of two main graphic strokes or elements, typical of the Vai script's visual style, and it is used in modern contexts such as digital text, historical documentation, and linguistic studies of the Vai language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A5C9 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Fo |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꗉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꗉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x97 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA5C9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A5C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua5c9 |