U+172D "ᜭ" Hanunoo Letter Ra Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Hanunoo
Script Extensions Hanunoo
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter