U+1705 "ᜅ" Tagalog Letter Nga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᜅ
U+1705 "ᜅ" Tagalog Letter Nga is a character from the Baybayin script, an ancient writing system used to write Tagalog and other Philippine languages before the widespread adoption of the Latin alphabet. Representing the velar nasal sound "nga" (as in the English word "sing" plus the vowel "a"), this letter is part of the modern Unicode block for the Philippine scripts, allowing for digital representation and preservation of traditional Filipino orthography. It is used in historical documents, cultural texts, and contemporary signage or artistic works that seek to revive or honor the Baybayin script, embodying a key phonetic element in the Tagalog language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1705 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Tagalog Letter Nga |
| Block | Tagalog |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᜅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᜅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9C 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1705 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001705 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1705 |