U+16AE4 "𖫤" Bassa Vah Letter Yein Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖫤
U+16AE4 "𖫤" Bassa Vah Letter Yein is a glyph representing the syllable or sound "yein" within the Bassa Vah script, an alphabet created in the early 20th century for writing the Bassa language, spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This character belongs to the Bassa Vah block of the Unicode Standard, which was added to support the digital preservation and typographic representation of the script. The Bassa Vah letter Yein, like other characters in this alphabet, is part of a now endangered writing system, making its inclusion in Unicode crucial for cultural and linguistic documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AE4 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Letter Yein |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDEE4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AE4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udee4 |