U+16AE8 "𖫨" Bassa Vah Letter O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖫨
U+16AE8 "𖫨" Bassa Vah Letter O is a character from the Bassa Vah script, a writing system used primarily for the Bassa language in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the vowel sound "O" in the Bassa language's alphabet. The Bassa Vah script was developed in the early 20th century and has seen renewed interest for cultural and educational purposes. Character this letter is encoded in the Unicode standard's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, allowing its use in digital text and modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AE8 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Letter O |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDEE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AE8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udee8 |