U+A5EB "ꗫ" Vai Syllable Mbe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꗫ
U+A5EB "ꗫ" Vai Syllable Mbe is a character from the Vai script, which was created in the early 19th century by Momolu Duwalu Bukele for writing the Vai language spoken in Liberia. This specific character represents the syllable "mbe," and like all Vai syllables, it is part of a unique syllabary that uses distinct glyphs for each consonant vowel combination rather than an alphabet. The Vai script was one of the few indigenous writing systems developed in sub-Saharan Africa and is still used today for traditional literature and correspondence. The inclusion of this character in Unicode ensures its preservation and digital representation for modern computing and textual communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A5EB |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Mbe |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꗫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꗫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x97 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA5EB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A5EB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua5eb |