U+16AE3 "𖫣" Bassa Vah Letter Vu Unicode Character

U+16AE3 "𖫣" Bassa Vah Letter Vu is a glyph from the Bassa Vah script, which was historically used to write the Bassa language of Liberia and Sierra Leone before falling into disuse and later being revived in the 20th century. This specific character represents the syllable "vu" and belongs to a syllabary invented by Dr. Thomas Narvin Lewis in the early 1900s, designed to capture the phonetic sounds of the Bassa language. As part of the Unicode Standard's Bassa Vah block, it supports the digital preservation and modern typing of this script, which consists of 30 consonant letters and 5 vowel diacritics.