What ꔽ means
It writes one spoken Vai syllable.
The Vai script is a syllabary: each character represents one spoken syllable, not a whole word.
Vai accounts credit several writers led by Mọmọlu Duwalu Bukẹlẹ with creating the script; one says they wanted to send letters. Outside reports describe it in 1834. Merchants used it for correspondence and records. In the first half of the twentieth century, Mende, Loma, and Kpelle scripts adopted its syllabic model and created their own characters.
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Who writes ꔽ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꔽ show as a box?
A box usually means the font lacks Vai support. Choose a font that includes Vai characters.
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How to type or find ꔽ
- Search it as
- vai script · vai font · type vai · Liberia
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
ꔽCSS
\A53DWikimedia Vai input
As of September 2026, enter z then i in Wikimedia’s Vai transliteration layout.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ꔽ
HTML hex
ꔽ
CSS content
content: "\A53D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%94%BD
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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.