U+A5D0 "ꗐ" Vai Syllable Ro Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꗐ
U+A5D0 "ꗐ" Vai Syllable Ro is part of the Vai script, a writing system historically used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone to represent the sounds of their language. This specific character encodes the syllable "ro," contributing to the syllabic nature of the script, which is notable for being one of the few indigenous African syllabaries developed with no direct European influence. The Vai script, including this character, is encoded in the Unicode Standard to preserve and support digital communication for this cultural and linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A5D0 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Ro |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꗐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꗐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x97 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA5D0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A5D0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua5d0 |