U+16AE4 "𖫤" Bassa Vah Letter Yein Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+16AE4 "𖫤" Bassa Vah Letter Yein is a glyph representing the syllable or sound "yein" within the Bassa Vah script, an alphabet created in the early 20th century for writing the Bassa language, spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This character belongs to the Bassa Vah block of the Unicode Standard, which was added to support the digital preservation and typographic representation of the script. The Bassa Vah letter Yein, like other characters in this alphabet, is part of a now endangered writing system, making its inclusion in Unicode crucial for cultural and linguistic documentation.
General Properties
Code Point
U+16AE4
Name
Bassa Vah Letter Yein
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
𖫤
HTML Hex Encoding
𖫤
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD81A 0xDEE4
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00016AE4
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud81a\udee4
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Bassa Vah