U+174B "ᝋ" Buhid Letter Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+174B "ᝋ" Buhid Letter Ma is a character from the Buhid script, an abugida used primarily to write the Buhid language spoken by the Buhid people on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines. This specific character represents the syllable "ma" in the Buhid writing system, which is part of the larger Brahmic family of scripts originating from the Brahmi script of ancient India. The Buhid script, including the letter Ma, is encoded in the Unicode Standard beginning with version 3.2 in 2002, facilitating its preservation and digital use for cultural and linguistic purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+174B |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Buhid Letter Ma |
| Block | Buhid |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᝋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᝋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9D 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x174B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000174B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u174b |