U+1706 "ᜆ" Tagalog Letter Ta Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1706 "ᜆ" Tagalog Letter Ta is a character from the Hanunoo script, one of the indigenous writing systems of the Philippines used historically to write the Tagalog language. This specific character represents the syllable "ta" and belongs to the Brahmic family of scripts, which are derived from ancient Indian writing systems. In Hanunoo, as in other related Philippine scripts, it is written as a single consonant character that inherently carries the vowel "a," though its sound can be modified by adding diacritical marks. Today, the character is primarily used in scholarly and cultural contexts to preserve and revive traditional Philippine writing systems, often appearing in linguistic studies, historical documents, and digital fonts aimed at supporting endangered scripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+1706
Version Added 3.2
Name Tagalog Letter Ta
Block Tagalog
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᜆ
HTML Hex Encoding ᜆ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x9C 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1706
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001706
C/C++/Java Escape \u1706

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Tagalog
Script Extensions Tagalog
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter