U+1725 "ᜥ" Hanunoo Letter Nga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᜥ
U+1725 "ᜥ" Hanunoo Letter Nga is a character from the Hanunoo script, an indigenous writing system used by the Hanunoo Mangyan people in the Philippines, particularly on the island of Mindoro. This script is a syllabary, and "nga" represents a syllable pronounced with a velar nasal sound, similar to the "ng" in the English word "sing." The Hanunoo script is traditionally written on bamboo with a knife, and its letters are distinguished by distinct curvilinear forms, with "ᜥ" being one of its core consonant characters. As part of the Unicode standard, this character helps preserve and digitally represent the linguistic heritage of the Hanunoo culture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1725 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Hanunoo Letter Nga |
| Block | Hanunoo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᜥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᜥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9C 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1725 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001725 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1725 |