U+172E "ᜮ" Hanunoo Letter La Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+172E "ᜮ" Hanunoo Letter La is a character used in the Hanunoo script, an indigenous writing system from the Philippines employed primarily by the Hanunoo Mangyan people on the island of Mindoro to write their language. This script is syllabic in nature, and the letter La specifically represents the syllable "la," contributing to the phonetic representation of the language's spoken sounds. The inclusion of this character in the Unicode Standard ensures that it can be digitally encoded, preserved, and used in modern computing environments, supporting efforts to maintain and revitalize this cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+172E |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Hanunoo Letter La |
| Block | Hanunoo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᜮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᜮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9C 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x172E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000172E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u172e |