What ꘤ means
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In Windows Office, type A624 and press Alt+X. In Linux GTK, press Ctrl+Shift+U, type a624, then press Enter.
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What does ꘤ mean?
It is the Vai numeral for four. This Vai numeral belongs to a set of ten decimal digits designed as Vai-style versions of European digits; its value is still four.
Vai is the writing system for the Vai language, spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. It developed in the early 1830s, mainly through Momolu Duwalu Bukele; one known specimen is dated 1834. A standard syllabary—a set of signs for syllables—was published in 1962.
The Vai digit set was devised in the 1920s. Modern Vai literature uses European digits instead, so ꘤ is a historical form rather than the routine choice.
A historical Vai numeral; its script-specific shape still represents the value four.
Use plain `4` for routine modern Vai text; this glyph also needs a Vai-supporting font.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does ꘤ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type ꘤
꘤\A624Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.