U+16AE0 "ð–« " Bassa Vah Letter Uwu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–«
U+16AE0 "ð–« " Bassa Vah Letter Uwu is a specific glyph from the Bassa Vah script, a writing system historically used for the Bassa language in Liberia and Sierra Leone before being largely replaced by the Latin alphabet. This character represents the syllabic sound "uwu" and is part of a unified block of over thirty letters, known as vah, designed by Dr. Thomas Flo Lewis in the early 20th century to support Bassa literacy. Today, its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally encode this endangered script for cultural and linguistic documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AE0 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Letter Uwu |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDEE0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AE0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udee0 |