U+A5F3 "ꗳ" Vai Syllable Te Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꗳ
U+A5F3 "ꗳ" Vai Syllable Te is a glyph from the Vai script, an indigenous writing system used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone in West Africa. This specific character represents the syllable "te," one of many syllabic signs that Vai uses to write the language's rich array of sounds. The Vai script, created in the early 19th century, is notable for being one of the few indigenous African writing systems that does not derive from a European or Arabic alphabet. In digital contexts, this character allows for the accurate representation and preservation of Vai language texts, supporting literacy and cultural heritage in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A5F3 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Te |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꗳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꗳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x97 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA5F3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A5F3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua5f3 |