U+1721 "ᜡ" Hanunoo Letter I Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1721 "ᜡ" Hanunoo Letter I is a character from the Hanunoo script, an indigenous alphasyllabary used primarily by the Hanunoo Mangyan people on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines. This character represents the vowel sound /i/ and is written as part of a vertical, typically left-to-right writing system that is often carved into bamboo with a knife. As a component of the Hanunoo orthography, it plays a role in preserving and documenting the linguistic heritage of this ethnic community, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital representation and accessibility for modern communication and research.

General Properties

Code Point U+1721
Version Added 3.2
Name Hanunoo Letter I
Block Hanunoo
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᜡ
HTML Hex Encoding ᜡ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x9C 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1721
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001721
C/C++/Java Escape \u1721

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Hanunoo
Script Extensions Hanunoo
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Independent
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter