U+174D "ᝍ" Buhid Letter Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+174D "ᝍ" Buhid Letter Ra is a character from the Buhid script, an indigenous alphabet used historically by the Buhid people of Mindoro, Philippines, to write their language. This script is part of the broader Brahmic family of writing systems, and the letter "Ra" represents the consonant sound /r/ in the Buhid language. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Buhid block, which was added to support the preservation and digital representation of this minority script. As a result, U+174D allows for the accurate transmission of Buhid texts in modern computing environments, aiding efforts to maintain linguistic and cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+174D |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Buhid Letter Ra |
| Block | Buhid |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᝍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᝍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9D 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x174D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000174D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u174d |