U+1773 "ᝳ" Tagbanwa Vowel Sign U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1773 "ᝳ" Tagbanwa Vowel Sign U is a combining diacritical mark used in the Tagbanwa script, an indigenous writing system historically employed in the Philippines for the Tagbanwa language on the island of Palawan. This character is positioned after a consonant to represent the vowel sound "u", modifying the inherent vowel of the base consonant in the abugida writing system. It is encoded in the Unicode standard under the Tagbanwa block and is distinct from similar vowel signs in other Brahmic-derived scripts, reflecting the unique phonological needs of the Tagbanwa language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1773 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Tagbanwa Vowel Sign U |
| 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 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1773 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001773 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1773 |