U+16AD9 "ð–«™" Bassa Vah Letter Jo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16AD9 "ð–«™" Bassa Vah Letter Jo is a glyph within the Bassa Vah script, an alphabet historically used to write the Bassa language of Liberia and Sierra Leone before largely falling out of use. This specific character represents the consonant sound "jo" and is part of a syllabary that was developed in the early 20th century by Dr. Thomas Lewis and others to promote literacy among the Bassa people. While the script experienced a revival effort in modern digital encoding, its usage remains limited, and this letter primarily serves linguistic and cultural preservation purposes in text processing and scholarly work.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AD9 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Letter Jo |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDED9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AD9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uded9 |