U+A5D6 "ꗖ" Vai Syllable Zho Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꗖ
U+A5D6 "ꗖ" Vai Syllable Zho is a glyph from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically developed by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone in the early 19th century. This specific character represents the syllable “zho” as used in the Vai language, which is a Mande language spoken by over 100,000 people. It belongs to the Unicode block “Vai”, which was added to the standard in version 5.1 in 2008 to support digital representation of this indigenous script, preserving its use for modern communication and cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A5D6 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Zho |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꗖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꗖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x97 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA5D6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A5D6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua5d6 |