U+A5E6 "ꗦ" Vai Syllable We Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A5E6 "ꗦ" Vai Syllable We is a glyph from the Vai script, which was historically used to write the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "we" in the Vai syllabary, a writing system created in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele. The Vai script is notable for being one of the few indigenous African writing systems developed without direct European influence, and it remains in limited modern use for ceremonial and educational purposes.

General Properties

Code Point U+A5E6
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable We
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꗦ
HTML Hex Encoding ꗦ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x97 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA5E6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A5E6
C/C++/Java Escape \ua5e6

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