U+1743 "ᝃ" Buhid Letter Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᝃ
U+1743 "ᝃ" Buhid Letter Ka is a script character from the Buhid alphabet, an indigenous writing system used to write the Buhid language spoken by the Buhid people of Mindoro in the Philippines. This character represents the consonant sound "ka" and belongs to a larger family of Brahmic scripts used across Southeast Asia. Its form is a distinct geometric shape typical of Buhid script, which is written from left to right, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support the preservation and digital representation of this endangered language and its cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1743 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Buhid Letter Ka |
| Block | Buhid |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᝃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᝃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9D 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1743 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001743 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1743 |