U+16AEC "𖫬" Bassa Vah Letter E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖫬
U+16AEC "𖫬" Bassa Vah Letter E is a glyph used in the Bassa Vah script, an alphabetic writing system developed for the Bassa language spoken primarily in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the vowel sound "e" and is part of a script that was created in the early 1900s by Dr. Thomas Narvin Lewis and others, drawing from indigenous symbols. While the Bassa Vah script saw limited use in the past, it has been encoded in Unicode to support digital preservation and revitalization efforts, allowing the letter to be displayed and processed on modern computers and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AEC |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Letter E |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDEEC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AEC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udeec |