U+1740 "ᝀ" Buhid Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1740 "ᝀ" Buhid Letter A is a character used in the Buhid script, an indigenous writing system of the Philippines employed to write the Buhid language, which belongs to the country's Mangyan group of languages. This character represents the vowel sound "a," a foundational letter in the Buhid syllabary, which is typically written in an abugida style where consonants carry an inherent vowel modified by diacritics. Historically, the Buhid script is closely related to other Philippine scripts like Hanunó'o and Tagbanwa, all deriving from ancient Brahmic influences. As part of the Unicode Standard, this character ensures that the Buhid language can be accurately preserved and digitally represented in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1740 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Buhid Letter A |
| Block | Buhid |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᝀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᝀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9D 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1740 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001740 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1740 |