What ꘁ means
It spells one Vai syllable; context supplies its meaning. Mọmọlu Duwalu Bukẹlẹ and associates developed the script in Liberia in the early 1830s. A March 1834 missionary account links a dream to a plan for Vai people to write letters as at Monrovia. Arabic and Latin scripts were present in the region; a Cherokee influence remains conjectural. Early Vai texts also used word-signs, some still in use as of 2026.
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Who writes ꘁ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꘁ 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.
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How to type or find ꘁ
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- Vai writing · Vai script · Vai syllabary · Vai keyboard · Vai font
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
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\A601How to type ꘁ
Use a Vai keyboard layout; Windows Keyman and macOS input options are documented as of 2026. Without a Vai font, the glyph may appear as a box.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ꘁ
HTML hex
ꘁ
CSS content
content: "\A601";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%98%81
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.