U+16ADB "𖫛" Bassa Vah Letter Wa Unicode Character

U+16ADB "𖫛" Bassa Vah Letter Wa is a character from the Bassa Vah script, which was historically used to write the Bassa language, a Kru language spoken primarily in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific letter represents the consonant sound "w" and is part of a syllabary invented in the early 20th century by Dr. Thomas Flo Lewis, designed to promote literacy among the Bassa people. The character is encoded in Unicode’s Supplementary Multilingual Plane to preserve and facilitate digital use of this unique writing system.