U+171F "ᜟ" Tagalog Letter Archaic Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+171F "ᜟ" Tagalog Letter Archaic Ra is a glyph from the Hanunoo script, part of the Brahmic family used historically for writing the Tagalog language in the Philippines, representing the sound "ra" but marked as archaic because it was an older, less common form that eventually fell out of use in favor of the standard character for "ra." This character is encoded in the Unicode Hanunoo block, which was added to support the preservation and digital representation of Philippine indigenous scripts, and its specific designation as "archaic" highlights that it is a historical variant not employed in modern Hanunoo or Tagalog writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+171F |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Tagalog Letter Archaic Ra |
| Block | Tagalog |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᜟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᜟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9C 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x171F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000171F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u171f |