U+1736 "᜶" Philippine Double Punctuation Unicode Character

U+1736 "᜶" Philippine Double Punctuation is a script-specific mark used in the Hanunó'o and Buhid indigenous scripts of the Philippines, where it functions as a sentence-ending or clause-separating symbol equivalent to a period or comma in Western punctuation. Its distinctive double-dot design, resembling a pair of vertically or horizontally aligned circles, visually indicates a pause or break in traditional orthography. This character was encoded in Unicode version 3.2 in 2002 as part of the Philippine scripts block to support the accurate digital representation and preservation of these endangered writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1736
Version Added	3.2
Name	Philippine Double Punctuation
Block	Hanunoo
General Category	Other Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	᜶
HTML Hex Encoding	᜶
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x9C 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1736
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001736
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1736

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	Break After
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Buhid Hanunoo Tagbanwa Tagalog
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Terminal Punctuation	Yes
Sentence Terminal	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	STerm