U+A5F1 "ꗱ" Vai Syllable Fe Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A5F1 "ꗱ" Vai Syllable Fe is part of the Vai script, an indigenous syllabary historically used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone to write the Vai language. This specific character represents the syllable pronounced as "fe," contributing to the phonetic inventory of the script, which was devised in the early 19th century and is notable for being one of the few African scripts created without direct external influence. While Vai writing has declined in daily use with the adoption of Latin-based orthography, it remains culturally significant and is supported in modern digital standards like Unicode to preserve and represent this linguistic heritage.

General Properties

Code Point U+A5F1
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Fe
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꗱ
HTML Hex Encoding ꗱ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x97 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA5F1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A5F1
C/C++/Java Escape \ua5f1

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