U+176C "ᝬ" Tagbanwa Letter Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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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 |