U+170A "ᜊ" Tagalog Letter Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+170A "ᜊ" Tagalog Letter Ba is a character from the Baybayin script, the traditional writing system of the Tagalog people in the Philippines. It represents the syllable or sound "ba" and is classified as a consonant character with an inherent vowel a, which can be modified by diacritical marks to produce other vowel sounds. This character is part of the Tagalog block in Unicode, encoded to preserve and enable digital use of the historical and cultural script that was widely used before the Spanish colonization. Today, it plays a role in cultural revival efforts and is supported in modern computing systems for writing Filipino languages and texts in Baybayin.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+170A |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Tagalog Letter Ba |
| Block | Tagalog |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᜊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᜊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9C 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x170A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000170A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u170a |