U+A604 "ꘄ" Vai Syllable Ngge Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꘄ
U+A604 "ꘄ" Vai Syllable Ngge is a glyph from the Vai syllabary, a writing system traditionally used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone to write their language. This specific character represents the syllable "ngge," pronounced with a voiced velar nasal sound followed by a close-mid front vowel. The Vai script, including this symbol, was created in the 1830s and is one of the few indigenous African scripts to have developed independently without direct European influence, serving as a vital tool for preserving and transmitting the Vai language and culture through literacy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A604 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Ngge |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꘄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꘄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x98 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA604 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A604 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua604 |