What ꕙ means
In a Vai word, ꕙ marks one syllable: roughly v followed by a.
The Vai script writes the Vai language and is used in Liberia and eastern Sierra Leone. Neighboring characters show how ꕙ fits into a word.
The Vai script began in Liberia around 1832–33 and was used for correspondence and record-keeping, especially in trade. A surviving sample from 1834 offers an early glimpse. Its forms changed as teaching and standards evolved, and it helped inspire other Indigenous West African scripts. Proposed origins involving Arabic, Latin, and Cherokee remain debated.
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Who writes ꕙ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꕙ 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 ꕙ
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- ꕙ · Vai va · Vai syllabary · Vai script · type ꕙ
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ꕙ\A559Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.