U+16AD8 "𖫘" Bassa Vah Letter Kpah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖫘
U+16AD8 "𖫘" Bassa Vah Letter Kpah is a glyph from the Bassa Vah script, which was historically used by the Bassa people of Liberia and Sierra Leone to write the Bassa language. This script, invented in the early twentieth century by Dr. Thomas Flo Lewis, is an alphabetic writing system with a unique set of characters, and the letter "Kpah" represents a specific consonant sound in the language. As part of the Unicode Standard, U+16AD8 ensures that this historical script can be digitally preserved, displayed, and exchanged across modern computing platforms, supporting efforts to revitalize and document the Bassa language and its cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AD8 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Letter Kpah |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDED8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AD8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uded8 |