U+16AE9 "ð–«©" Bassa Vah Letter Oo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–«©
U+16AE9 "ð–«©" Bassa Vah Letter Oo is a glyph representing a specific vowel sound in the Bassa Vah script, which was historically used to write the Bassa language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This character corresponds to the open o sound, similar to the vowel in the English word "ought." As part of the Bassa Vah block in Unicode, it helps preserve and support a unique indigenous African writing system that was revived in the early 20th century. The letter is encoded for digital text representation, allowing for accurate transcription and communication in modern electronic media.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AE9 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Letter Oo |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDEE9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AE9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udee9 |