U+170B "ᜋ" Tagalog Letter Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᜋ
U+170B "ᜋ" Tagalog Letter Ma is a character in the Sundanese script used to write the Tagalog language, representing the syllable "ma." It is part of the Unicode block titled "Tagalog," which encodes characters from the ancient Baybayin script traditionally employed in the Philippines before Spanish colonization. This specific glyph consists of a single, simple stroke that forms the consonant sound "m" combined with the inherent vowel "a," and it is used in modern digital contexts to preserve and represent Filipino cultural heritage in text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+170B |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Tagalog Letter Ma |
| Block | Tagalog |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᜋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᜋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9C 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x170B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000170B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u170b |