U+16AD1 "ð–«‘" Bassa Vah Letter Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16AD1 "ð–«‘" Bassa Vah Letter Ka is a glyph from the Bassa Vah script, which was historically used to write the Bassa language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This script, rediscovered and encoded in Unicode’s Supplemental Multilingual Plane, represents a consonant sound akin to the English 'k'. The Bassa Vah script, created in the early 20th century and believed to be inspired by earlier syllabary traditions, is now rarely used, but this character preserves an important piece of West African linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AD1 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Letter Ka |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDED1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AD1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uded1 |