U+16AD6 "ð–«–" Bassa Vah Letter Gah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–«–
U+16AD6 "ð–«–" Bassa Vah Letter Gah is a character in the Bassa Vah script, which was historically used to write the Bassa language of Liberia and neighboring West African countries. This specific letter represents a syllabic consonant sound, akin to "ga" or a similar velar phoneme, within the Bassa Vah alphabet, which was developed in the early 20th century as an indigenous writing system. The script fell out of widespread use but has seen modern revival efforts, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally encode this cultural heritage for documentation and communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AD6 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Letter Gah |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDED6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AD6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uded6 |