U+A5F1 "ꗱ" Vai Syllable Fe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꗱ
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 |