U+16AE3 "ð–«£" Bassa Vah Letter Vu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–«£
U+16AE3 "ð–«£" Bassa Vah Letter Vu is a glyph from the Bassa Vah script, which was historically used to write the Bassa language of Liberia and Sierra Leone before falling into disuse and later being revived in the 20th century. This specific character represents the syllable "vu" and belongs to a syllabary invented by Dr. Thomas Narvin Lewis in the early 1900s, designed to capture the phonetic sounds of the Bassa language. As part of the Unicode Standard's Bassa Vah block, it supports the digital preservation and modern typing of this script, which consists of 30 consonant letters and 5 vowel diacritics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AE3 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Letter Vu |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDEE3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AE3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udee3 |