U+176C "ᝬ" Tagbanwa Letter Ya Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+176C "ᝬ" Tagbanwa Letter Ya is a character from the Tagbanwa script, an abugida historically used in the Philippines for writing the Tagbanwa language, spoken on the island of Palawan. This specific character represents the syllable "ya" in that writing system, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support the digital preservation and electronic use of this indigenous script, allowing texts to be rendered and processed on modern computers alongside other global characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+176C
Version Added 3.2
Name Tagbanwa Letter Ya
Block Tagbanwa
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᝬ
HTML Hex Encoding ᝬ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x9D 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x176C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000176C
C/C++/Java Escape \u176c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Tagbanwa
Script Extensions Tagbanwa
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter