U+A5DC "ꗜ" Vai Syllable Nggo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꗜ
U+A5DC "ꗜ" Vai Syllable Nggo is a glyph from the Vai script, a writing system historically used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "nggo," which is pronounced with a velar nasal onset followed by a mid back rounded vowel, and it is part of the larger syllabary traditionally credited to the Vai inventor Momolu Duwalu Bukele in the 1830s. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard within the Vai block (U+A500 to U+A63F), which was added in version 5.1 to support digital representation of this indigenous African script, preserving its use for modern communication and cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A5DC |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Nggo |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꗜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꗜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x97 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA5DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A5DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua5dc |