VAI SYLLABLE THO character

VAI SYLLABLE THO
U+A5CC
42444
ꗌ
ꗌ
Lo (Letter, Other)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Vai
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
ꗌ












VAI SYLLABLE THO is other letters, including syllables and ideographs from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of VAI SYLLABLE THO 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.

Other Letter (Lo) refers to letters that do not fit into the uppercase, lowercase, titlecase, or modifier letter categories. These include letters from scripts that do not have case distinction, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and others. This category is also used for syllabic and ideographic characters that function as letters.

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..