U+170C "ᜌ" Tagalog Letter Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᜌ
U+170C "ᜌ" Tagalog Letter Ya is a character from the Hanunoo script, which is an ancient writing system used by the Hanunoo Mangyan people in the Philippines, primarily for writing the Hanunoo language. This character represents the syllable "ya," functioning as a consonant sound in the script's alphasyllabary, where each character denotes a consonant with an inherent vowel that can be modified by diacritics. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard, as part of the Hanunoo block, helps preserve and digitize this indigenous script, enabling modern digital communication and documentation for linguistic and cultural heritage purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+170C |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Tagalog Letter Ya |
| Block | Tagalog |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᜌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᜌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9C 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x170C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000170C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u170c |