U+16AEA "𖫪" Bassa Vah Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+16AEA "𖫪" Bassa Vah Letter U is part of the Bassa Vah script, which was developed in the early 20th century by Dr. Thomas Flo Lewis for writing the Bassa language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the vowel sound /u/ and is one of 30 letters in the Bassa Vah alphabet, a script that combines elements of ideographic and alphabetic writing systems. The Unicode Standard included the Bassa Vah block in version 7.0, released in 2014, helping to preserve and digitally represent this culturally significant script.
General Properties
Code Point
U+16AEA
Name
Bassa Vah Letter U
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
𖫪
HTML Hex Encoding
𖫪
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x96 0xAB 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD81A 0xDEEA
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00016AEA
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud81a\udeea
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Bassa Vah