U+16AD3 "ð–«“" Bassa Vah Letter Fa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16AD3 "ð–«“" Bassa Vah Letter Fa is a character from the Bassa Vah script, an alphabet created in the early 20th century for writing the Bassa language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the consonant sound /f/ and is one of over thirty letters in the script, which was invented by Dr. Thomas Lewis and developed further by his associate, Rev. A. R. B. L. James, to promote literacy among the Bassa people. Although the script saw limited use and was largely supplanted by the Latin alphabet, it was added to the Unicode Standard in 2014 as part of version 7.0, ensuring its preservation for digital and historical purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AD3 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Letter Fa |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDED3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AD3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uded3 |