U+A5D4 "ꗔ" Vai Syllable Sho Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꗔ
U+A5D4 "ꗔ" Vai Syllable Sho is part of the Vai script, a syllabary used to write the Vai language, which is spoken primarily in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "sho," contributing to the systematic representation of sounds in the language's orthography. The Vai script was developed in the early 19th century by Momolu Duwalu Bukele and is notable as one of the few indigenous African scripts with a documented creator.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A5D4 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Sho |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꗔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꗔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x97 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA5D4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A5D4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua5d4 |