U+16AE5 "ð–«¥" Bassa Vah Letter Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–«¥
U+16AE5 "ð–«¥" Bassa Vah Letter Pa is a glyph representing a specific consonant sound in the Bassa Vah script, which was historically used to write the Bassa language spoken by the Bassa people of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This alphabet was devised in the early 20th century by Dr. Thomas Narvin Lewis, drawing on indigenous syllabic traditions, and it serves a cultural and linguistic purpose in preserving the Bassa identity. The letter Pa denotes the sound /p/ and belongs to a script that, despite falling into disuse for much of the 20th century, has seen renewed interest through digital encoding and revival efforts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AE5 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Letter Pa |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDEE5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AE5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udee5 |