U+172B "ᜫ" Hanunoo Letter Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+172B "ᜫ" Hanunoo Letter Ma is a character from the Hanunoo script, an indigenous writing system used by the Hanunoo Mangyan people of Mindoro in the Philippines. This script is an abugida, meaning each consonant symbol carries an inherent vowel sound, which in Hanunoo is typically /a/, so "Ma" represents the syllable "ma." The character is part of the Unicode block that encodes ancient and modern Philippine scripts, enabling digital preservation and use of this culturally significant component of Filipino heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+172B |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Hanunoo Letter Ma |
| Block | Hanunoo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᜫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᜫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9C 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x172B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000172B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u172b |