U+16AE6 "𖫦" Bassa Vah Letter Wadda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖫦
U+16AE6 "𖫦" Bassa Vah Letter Wadda is a specific glyph from the Bassa Vah script, which was historically used to write the Bassa language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This script, invented around the late 19th or early 20th century by Thomas Narvin Lewis and others, is an alphabet where each character represents a single sound, and the letter Wadda corresponds to the consonant sound /w/ or a similar labial glide. Although the Bassa Vah script saw limited adoption and is now largely replaced by the Latin alphabet for writing Bassa, it has been encoded in Unicode as part of efforts to preserve and digitally represent endangered and historical writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AE6 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Letter Wadda |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDEE6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AE6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udee6 |