U+A5F5 "ꗵ" Vai Syllable Dhe Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A5F5 "ꗵ" Vai Syllable Dhe 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 "dhe," which is one of many syllabic units in the Vai script, a system created in the early 19th century by Momolu Duwalu Bukele. The Vai script is notable for being one of the few indigenous African writing systems with a continuous tradition, and U+A5F5 is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support digital text and modern communication for Vai speakers and researchers.

General Properties

Code Point U+A5F5
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Dhe
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꗵ
HTML Hex Encoding ꗵ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x97 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA5F5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A5F5
C/C++/Java Escape \ua5f5

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