U+172D "ᜭ" Hanunoo Letter Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+172D "ᜭ" Hanunoo Letter Ra is a character from the Hanunoo script, which is an indigenous writing system traditionally used by the Hanunoo Mangyan people on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines to write the Hanunoo language. This specific letter represents the sound "ra" and is part of a syllabic alphabet where each character denotes a syllable ending in a vowel, typically a by default, with diacritics modifying the vowel sound. The character is encoded in Unicode's Tagalog block, reflecting efforts to preserve and digitally represent endangered scripts of the Philippines.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+172D |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Hanunoo Letter Ra |
| Block | Hanunoo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᜭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᜭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9C 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x172D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000172D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u172d |