U+A618 "ꘘ" Vai Symbol Faa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꘘ
U+A618 "ꘘ" Vai Symbol Faa is a logogram from the Vai script, a writing system historically used by the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone, representing the word for "soap" in the Vai language. This character is part of the Vai syllabary, which was devised in the early 19th century to encode the sounds and lexical items of Vai, a Mande language. In its specific usage, the symbol Faa functions as a single glyph for the concept of soap, streamlining textual representation in traditional Vai writing and preserving cultural and linguistic heritage within the Unicode standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A618 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Vai Symbol Faa |
| Block | Vai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꘘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꘘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x98 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA618 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A618 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua618 |