U+A5ED "ꗭ" Vai Syllable Kpen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꗭ
U+A5ED "ꗭ" Vai Syllable Kpen is a glyph from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "kpen" as defined in the Vai script, which was created in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele and is one of the few indigenous African scripts to gain widespread use. The Vai syllabary encodes both consonants and vowels, and "ꗭ" is part of a larger set of characters that help preserve the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Vai people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A5ED |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Kpen |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꗭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꗭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x97 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA5ED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A5ED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua5ed |