U+1729 "ᜩ" Hanunoo Letter Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1729 "ᜩ" Hanunoo Letter Pa is a character from the Hanunoo script, which is an indigenous writing system used by the Hanunoo Mangyan people in the southern part of Mindoro, Philippines. This script is primarily employed for writing poetry, love letters, and traditional records, and it is written in a vertical direction from bottom to top, with characters representing syllables based on a consonant plus inherent vowel /a/, which can be modified by diacritical marks for other vowels. As the letter "Pa," this glyph specifically denotes the syllable "pa" and is part of a tradition that dates back to pre-colonial times, reflecting the region's rich cultural heritage and linguistic diversity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1729 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Hanunoo Letter Pa |
| Block | Hanunoo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᜩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᜩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9C 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1729 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001729 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1729 |