U+1700 "ᜀ" Tagalog Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᜀ
U+1700 "ᜀ" Tagalog Letter A is a character from the Baybayin script, an ancient writing system historically used in the Philippines for the Tagalog language and other Philippine languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet. It represents the sound of the vowel "a" and is typically written as an independent character, forming the basis for other vowel marks or syllabic combinations in the script. As part of the Unicode Standard's Tagalog block, this character helps preserve and digitize a significant piece of Philippine cultural and linguistic heritage, enabling modern electronic text and typography to represent indigenous scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1700 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Tagalog Letter A |
| Block | Tagalog |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᜀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᜀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9C 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1700 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001700 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1700 |