U+A5D7 "ꗗ" Vai Syllable Co Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꗗ
U+A5D7 "ꗗ" Vai Syllable Co is a character in the Vai script, an indigenous writing system used primarily in Liberia and Sierra Leone for the Vai language, which belongs to the Mande language family. This specific glyph represents the syllable "co" and is part of a syllabary that includes 212 characters used to write the language's phonemic inventory. The Vai script was created in the early 19th century by Momolu Duwalu Bukele and is one of the few indigenous scripts in Africa that have remained in active use, particularly in ceremonial and educational contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A5D7 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Co |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꗗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꗗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x97 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA5D7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A5D7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua5d7 |