U+A607 "ꘇ" Vai Syllable Gen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꘇ
U+A607 "ꘇ" Vai Syllable Gen is part of the Vai script, a syllabary used historically for writing the Vai language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "gen," contributing to the script's system of phonetic symbols that encode consonant vowel combinations. The Vai script was developed in the 1830s and is one of the few indigenous writing systems in West Africa, with U+A607 serving as a linguistic tool for preserving and transcribing the spoken Vai language in written form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A607 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Syllable Gen |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꘇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꘇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x98 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA607 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A607 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua607 |