U+16AE7 "𖫧" Bassa Vah Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖫧
U+16AE7 "𖫧" Bassa Vah Letter A is a glyph from the Bassa Vah script, which was historically used to write the Bassa language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the vowel sound "a" in the Bassa Vah alphabet, a writing system developed in the early 20th century by Dr. Thomas Flo Lewis to promote literacy among the Bassa people. The Bassa Vah script was added to Unicode in 2014 as part of version 7.0, helping to preserve and digitally support this indigenous African language and its unique syllabary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AE7 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Letter A |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDEE7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AE7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udee7 |