U+16ADA "ð–«š" Bassa Vah Letter Hwah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–«š
U+16ADA "𖫚" Bassa Vah Letter Hwah is a specific glyph from the Bassa Vah script, an indigenous writing system historically used for the Bassa language in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This character represents the consonant sound analogous to the English 'hw' or a voiceless labiovelar fricative, denoted as /ɣʷ/ in phonetic transcription. As part of the Bassa Vah block in Unicode, it enables the digital preservation and modern use of this script, which was largely displaced by the Latin alphabet but has seen revitalization efforts. The character's inclusion in Unicode ensures that texts written in Bassa Vah can be correctly displayed and processed across digital platforms, supporting cultural and linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16ADA |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Letter Hwah |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDEDA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016ADA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udeda |