U+1720 "ᜠ" Hanunoo Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᜠ
U+1720 "ᜠ" Hanunoo Letter A is a character from the Hanunoo script, an indigenous writing system used by the Hanunoo Mangyan people in the Philippines to write their language. This character represents the vowel sound /a/ and is one of the few surviving precolonial scripts in the country, typically written on bamboo with a knife. It is encoded in the Unicode standard to preserve and support digital representation of this endangered script, allowing for its use in modern computing and documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1720 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Hanunoo Letter A |
| Block | Hanunoo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᜠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᜠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9C 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1720 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001720 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1720 |