U+A5A6 "ꖦ" Vai Syllable Dhu Unicode Character

U+A5A6 "ꖦ" Vai Syllable Dhu is a glyph from the Vai script, a syllabary historically used to write the Vai language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "dhu," pronounced with a voiced dental or retroflex sound, and belongs to the broader set of Vai syllables that were standardized in Unicode to preserve the language's written heritage. The Vai script, developed in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele, is notable as one of the few indigenous writing systems in Africa created without direct European influence, and U+A5A6 is part of its modern digital representation for text processing and communication.