U+16AD4 "ð–«”" Bassa Vah Letter Mbe Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ð–«”

U+16AD4 "ð–«”" Bassa Vah Letter Mbe is a symbol from the Bassa Vah script, an alphabet historically used to write the Bassa language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the consonant sound "mb" and was part of a writing system developed in the early 20th century by Dr. Thomas Flo Lewis, though it fell into disuse before being revived and added to the Unicode Standard in 2014 as part of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

General Properties

Code Point U+16AD4
Version Added 7.0
Name Bassa Vah Letter Mbe
Block Bassa Vah
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖫔
HTML Hex Encoding 𖫔
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDED4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00016AD4
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\uded4

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Bassa Vah
Script Extensions Bassa Vah
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter