U+16AE0 "𖫠" Bassa Vah Letter Uwu Unicode Character

U+16AE0 "𖫠" Bassa Vah Letter Uwu is a specific glyph from the Bassa Vah script, a writing system historically used for the Bassa language in Liberia and Sierra Leone before being largely replaced by the Latin alphabet. This character represents the syllabic sound "uwu" and is part of a unified block of over thirty letters, known as vah, designed by Dr. Thomas Flo Lewis in the early 20th century to support Bassa literacy. Today, its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally encode this endangered script for cultural and linguistic documentation.