What ꖵ means
One syllable; the surrounding Vai word supplies its meaning.
Vai writing began in what is now Liberia in the early 1830s; the earliest surviving record is dated 1834. It served correspondence, records and trade. In an origin story, a “Vai book” appears in a dream, placing Vai writing beside Arabic and Latin used by neighboring communities. Later standardization favored syllable signs over earlier whole-word signs. A link to Cherokee writing has been proposed but remains conjectural.
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Who writes ꖵ
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Questions people ask
1Why is ꖵ a square?
Missing Vai font coverage is a likely cause: a 2023 MediaWiki guide reports that it can display as a square or question mark.
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How to type or find ꖵ
- Also called
- ŋgu
- Search it as
- nggu · Vai keyboard · Vai transliteration · Vai font
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
ꖵCSS
\A5B5Vai transliteration
In MediaWiki’s 2023 Vai transliteration layout, type
ng then u to enter ꖵ.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ꖵ
HTML hex
ꖵ
CSS content
content: "\A5B5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%96%B5
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On screen
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Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.