U+1742 "ᝂ" Buhid Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1742 "ᝂ" Buhid Letter U is a character from the Buhid script, an indigenous writing system used for the Buhid language spoken by the Buhid people on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines. As a vowel letter, it represents the sound /u/ and is part of the broader context of Philippine scripts, which are derived from the Brahmi script family and are used in traditional writing for cultural and historical purposes. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support the digital preservation and representation of the Buhid language, ensuring that this minority script can be used in modern computing environments for documentation, education, and cultural expression.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1742 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Buhid Letter U |
| Block | Buhid |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᝂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᝂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9D 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1742 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001742 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1742 |