U+16AE1 "ð–«¡" Bassa Vah Letter To Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–«¡
U+16AE1 "ð–«¡" Bassa Vah Letter To is the fourteenth letter of the Bassa Vah alphabet, an indigenous script devised for the Bassa language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. Representing the consonant sound 't' as in the English word "top," this character is part of a syllabary invented in the early 20th century by Dr. Thomas Flo Lewis and other Bassa intellectuals to preserve and promote the language, which was facing decline. The Bassa Vah script comprises over 30 letters and was historically used for writing religious texts, personal correspondence, and cultural records, though it remains rare today.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AE1 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Letter To |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDEE1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AE1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udee1 |