U+176E "ᝮ" Tagbanwa Letter La Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+176E "ᝮ" Tagbanwa Letter La is a character used in the Tagbanwa script, an abugida historically employed to write the Tagbanwa language, which is spoken by the Tagbanwa people in the Palawan region of the Philippines. This letter represents the consonant sound "la" in the Tagbanwa writing system, which is part of the Brahmic family of scripts and typically written from left to right. It was added to the Unicode Standard in version 3.2, released in 2002, to support the digital representation of this endangered script, ensuring its preservation and use in modern computing environments such as text processing and historical documentation. The character appears as a distinct glyph in the Tagbanwa Unicode block, contributing to the broader effort to encode minority and indigenous scripts for global digital communication.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᝮ
HTML Hex Encoding ᝮ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x9D 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x176E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000176E
C/C++/Java Escape \u176e

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