U+A5F9 "ꗹ" Vai Syllable De Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꗹ
U+A5F9 "ꗹ" Vai Syllable De is a glyph from the Vai syllabary, a writing system used for the Vai language spoken primarily in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "de," and it belongs to the set of Vai syllables encoded in the Unicode Standard's Vai block, which was introduced to support digital representation of this West African script. The Vai syllabary, invented in the early 19th century, is unique for its indigenous origin and its role in preserving and promoting the Vai language in written form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A5F9 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable De |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꗹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꗹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x97 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA5F9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A5F9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua5f9 |