U+16AE2 "ð–«¢" Bassa Vah Letter Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–«¢
U+16AE2 "ð–«¢" Bassa Vah Letter Ba is a glyph representing the first consonant of the Bassa Vah alphabet, a script historically used to write the Bassa language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. It corresponds to the sound /b/ and belongs to a standardized block of characters encoded in Unicode version 7.0 to preserve and enable digital representation of this indigenous African writing system, which was developed in the early 20th century and is now part of cultural revitalization efforts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AE2 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Letter Ba |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDEE2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AE2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udee2 |