U+A5C8 "ꗈ" Vai Syllable Gbon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+A5C8 "ꗈ" Vai Syllable Gbon is a glyph from the Vai syllabary, a writing system historically used for the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents a syllable pronounced as "gbon," originating from a set of graphemes that were standardized in the early 20th century and later encoded in Unicode to support digital preservation of the script. It belongs to the Vai block in Unicode, where each character corresponds to a consonant-vowel combination, and its form is a distinctive logographic symbol that remains important for linguistic studies and cultural heritage documentation of the Vai people.
General Properties
Code Point
U+A5C8
Name
Vai Syllable Gbon
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ꗈ
HTML Hex Encoding
ꗈ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0x97 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA5C8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A5C8
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua5c8
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Vai