U+16AEA "𖫪" Bassa Vah Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖫪
U+16AEA "𖫪" Bassa Vah Letter U is part of the Bassa Vah script, which was developed in the early 20th century by Dr. Thomas Flo Lewis for writing the Bassa language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the vowel sound /u/ and is one of 30 letters in the Bassa Vah alphabet, a script that combines elements of ideographic and alphabetic writing systems. The Unicode Standard included the Bassa Vah block in version 7.0, released in 2014, helping to preserve and digitally represent this culturally significant script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AEA |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Letter U |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDEEA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AEA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udeea |