U+A5E0 "ꗠ" Vai Syllable Nyo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A5E0 "ꗠ" Vai Syllable Nyo is a glyph from the Vai script, an indigenous writing system historically used for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "nyo," one of many syllabic symbols that make up the Vai script, which was invented in the early 19th century. It belongs to the Unicode block for Vai, which was added to the standard to preserve and support digital use of this African script.

General Properties

Code Point U+A5E0
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Nyo
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꗠ
HTML Hex Encoding ꗠ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x97 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA5E0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A5E0
C/C++/Java Escape \ua5e0

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Vai
Script Extensions Vai
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter