U+16ADB "ð–«›" Bassa Vah Letter Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–«›
U+16ADB "ð–«›" Bassa Vah Letter Wa is a character from the Bassa Vah script, which was historically used to write the Bassa language, a Kru language spoken primarily in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific letter represents the consonant sound "w" and is part of a syllabary invented in the early 20th century by Dr. Thomas Flo Lewis, designed to promote literacy among the Bassa people. The character is encoded in Unicode’s Supplementary Multilingual Plane to preserve and facilitate digital use of this unique writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16ADB |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Letter Wa |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDEDB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016ADB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udedb |