VAI DIGIT NINE character

VAI DIGIT NINE
U+A629
42537
꘩
꘩
Nd (Decimal Digit)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Vai
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
꘩












VAI DIGIT NINE is a decimal digit from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of VAI DIGIT NINE is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Decimal Number (Nd) refers to characters that represent the digits 0-9 in various scripts. These are the standard numerical digits used in most counting systems, and they are essential for representing numerical data in text.

This character belongs to the Vai block. The Vai block includes characters used in the Vai script, which is used to write the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. The Vai script is a syllabary, where each character represents a syllable rather than an individual phoneme. The script was developed in the early 19th century by Momolu Duwalu Bukele, who was inspired by a dream to create a writing system for his people. The Vai script is still in use today, particularly for writing religious texts, personal letters, and cultural documents. This block includes characters for all the syllables used in the Vai language, as well as a few additional marks for punctuation..