U+A5CD "ꗍ" Vai Syllable Dho Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A5CD "ꗍ" Vai Syllable Dho is a glyph from the Vai script, a syllabary historically used to write the Vai language of Liberia. This specific character represents the syllable "dho" and is one of over 200 distinct syllables in the Vai writing system, which was developed in the early 19th century. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitize the Vai language, allowing for modern electronic communication and text processing in this West African script.

General Properties

Code Point U+A5CD
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Dho
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꗍ
HTML Hex Encoding ꗍ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x97 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA5CD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A5CD
C/C++/Java Escape \ua5cd

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