U+A5FF "ꗿ" Vai Syllable Ce Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A5FF "ꗿ" Vai Syllable Ce is a specific glyph from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This character represents the syllable "ce," pronounced with the sound /tʃe/ or a similar affricate, and is part of a larger set of over 200 symbols created in the 1830s by the Vai people, making it one of the few indigenous African scripts to develop independently. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for digital preservation and accurate text representation of this unique African script in modern computing.

General Properties

Code Point U+A5FF
Version Added 5.1
Name Vai Syllable Ce
Block Vai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꗿ
HTML Hex Encoding ꗿ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x97 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA5FF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A5FF
C/C++/Java Escape \ua5ff

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