U+16ADC "𖫜" Bassa Vah Letter Zo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖫜
U+16ADC "𖫜" Bassa Vah Letter Zo is a glyph from the Bassa Vah script, which was historically used to write the Bassa language of Liberia and Sierra Leone before being largely supplanted by the Latin alphabet in the early twentieth century. This specific character, representing the consonant sound "zo," is part of an alphabet created by the indigenous Bassa people that features over thirty distinct letters, each with a unique curvilinear design. The script was encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, with this letter belonging to a block defined in version 7.0 of the standard, ensuring its digital preservation and accessibility for modern linguistic and cultural use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16ADC |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Letter Zo |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDEDC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016ADC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udedc |