U+A5ED "ꗭ" Vai Syllable Kpen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+A5ED "ꗭ" Vai Syllable Kpen 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 the syllable "kpen" as defined in the Vai script, which was created in the 1830s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele and is one of the few indigenous African scripts to gain widespread use. The Vai syllabary encodes both consonants and vowels, and "ꗭ" is part of a larger set of characters that help preserve the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Vai people.
General Properties
Code Point
U+A5ED
Name
Vai Syllable Kpen
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ꗭ
HTML Hex Encoding
ꗭ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0x97 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA5ED
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A5ED
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua5ed
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Vai