U+176A "ᝪ" Tagbanwa Letter Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᝪ
U+176A "ᝪ" Tagbanwa Letter Ba is a character from the Tagbanwa script, an abugida historically used to write the Tagbanwa language of the Philippines, and it represents the syllable “ba” in that writing system. This character is part of the Tagbanwa block in Unicode, encoded to support the preservation and digital representation of this indigenous script, which is still used today in some coastal and mountainous regions of Palawan for traditional writing and modern revitalization efforts. The letter “Ba” is a consonant character with an inherent vowel “a,” and it is written from left to right, contributing to the unique visual and linguistic heritage of the Tagbanwa people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+176A |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Tagbanwa Letter Ba |
| Block | Tagbanwa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᝪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᝪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9D 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x176A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000176A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u176a |