U+A5CF "ꗏ" Vai Syllable Lo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A5CF "ꗏ" Vai Syllable Lo is a character from the Vai script, a writing system historically used for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. It represents a specific syllable in the language, corresponding to the sound "lo," and is part of a larger syllabary that was uniquely developed by the Vai people in the early 19th century, reflecting their cultural and linguistic heritage. This character, encoded in the Unicode Standard's Vai block, ensures that the written form of the Vai language can be accurately preserved and shared in digital texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+A5CF
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Lo
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꗏ
HTML Hex Encoding ꗏ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x97 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA5CF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A5CF
C/C++/Java Escape \ua5cf

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