U+16AF5 "ð–«µ" Bassa Vah Full Stop Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–«µ
U+16AF5 "ð–«µ" Bassa Vah Full Stop is a punctuation mark used in the Bassa Vah script, which was historically employed to write the Bassa language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This character functions as a sentence-terminating full stop, similar to the period in the Latin alphabet, signaling the end of a declarative statement within Bassa Vah text. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital preservation and modernization of this once-common script, which experienced a decline in use during the 20th century but remains culturally significant.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AF5 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bassa Vah Full Stop |
| Block | Bassa Vah |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖫵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖫵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDEF5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AF5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udef5 |