U+1772 "ᝲ" Tagbanwa Vowel Sign I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᝲ
U+1772 "ᝲ" Tagbanwa Vowel Sign I is a combining diacritical mark used in the Tagbanwa script, an indigenous abugida historically employed by the Tagbanwa and Palaw'an peoples of the Philippines for writing their languages. This character represents the vowel sound /i/ and is placed after a consonant character to modify its inherent vowel, thereby indicating a specific pronunciation. It is part of the Tagbanwa block in Unicode, which was added to preserve and digitally represent this endangered script, supporting cultural and linguistic heritage in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1772 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Tagbanwa Vowel Sign I |
| Block | Tagbanwa |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᝲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᝲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9D 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1772 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001772 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1772 |