U+A5C9 "ꗉ" Vai Syllable Fo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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