U+170D "ᜍ" Tagalog Letter Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᜍ
U+170D "ᜍ" Tagalog Letter Ra is a character from the Hanunoo script block, representing the sound "ra" in the traditional writing system used for the Hanunoo language, an indigenous language of the Mangyan people on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines. It belongs to the Brahmic family of scripts and is written with an inherent vowel "a" that can be modified by diacritical marks. This character is part of the modern digital encoding of the Hanunoo script, which UNESCO has recognized as endangered, making its inclusion in Unicode crucial for preserving and revitalizing the written heritage of the Mangyan community.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+170D |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Tagalog Letter Ra |
| Block | Tagalog |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᜍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᜍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9C 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x170D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000170D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u170d |