U+A5DE "ꗞ" Vai Syllable Mo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꗞ
U+A5DE "ꗞ" Vai Syllable Mo is a character from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone to represent the Vai language, a Mande language. This specific character denotes the syllable "mo" and is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support digital representation and preservation of Vai script, which is one of the few indigenous writing systems in West Africa to have been created in the 19th century. Its inclusion in Unicode helps facilitate linguistic documentation, cultural heritage work, and modern digital communication for Vai speakers and scholars.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A5DE |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Mo |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꗞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꗞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x97 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA5DE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A5DE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua5de |