U+16AF1 "𖫱" Bassa Vah Combining Low Tone Unicode Character

U+16AF1 "𖫱" Bassa Vah Combining Low Tone is a combining mark used in the Bassa Vah script, a writing system created in the early 20th century for the Bassa language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. It is encoded as a combining diacritical character that modifies a base syllable or letter to indicate a low tone, which is a critical component of the language’s tonal system. This character is part of the Unicode 7.0 release in 2014, specifically allocated to the Bassa Vah block in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, and it visually represents a distinct typographic mark placed above or relative to its base letter to clarify pronunciation and meaning in written Bassa Vah text.