U+172A "ᜪ" Hanunoo Letter Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+172A "ᜪ" Hanunoo Letter Ba is a character from the Hanunoo script, an abugida used traditionally by the Hanunoo and Mangyan peoples in the Philippines to write the Hanunoo language. It represents the syllable "ba" and is part of the broader Brahmic family of scripts, characterized by its angular and intricate strokes often carved into bamboo. This character is encoded in the Unicode standard's Hanunoo block, enabling its digital representation and preservation for linguistic and cultural studies, though its practical use remains largely tied to traditional contexts rather than modern electronic communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+172A |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Hanunoo Letter Ba |
| Block | Hanunoo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᜪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᜪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9C 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x172A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000172A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u172a |