U+1769 "ᝩ" Tagbanwa Letter Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1769 "ᝩ" Tagbanwa Letter Pa is a character from the Tagbanwa script, an abugida historically used to write the Tagbanwa language, an Austronesian language spoken by the Tagbanwa people of Palawan in the Philippines. This particular character represents the syllable "pa," where the inherent vowel "a" is associated with the consonant sound "p." The Tagbanwa script, which is part of the Brahmic family of scripts, is traditionally written from left to right and is used for both religious and everyday purposes. The inclusion of U+1769 in Unicode ensures that digital text in the Tagbanwa script can be accurately represented and preserved, supporting cultural heritage and linguistic documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1769 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Tagbanwa Letter Pa |
| Block | Tagbanwa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᝩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᝩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9D 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1769 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001769 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1769 |