U+172F HANUNOO LETTER WA

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Decimal / Nº
5935
General Category
Block
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+172F, officially named HANUNOO LETTER WA, was introduced in Unicode version 3.2. It is part of the Hanunoo block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Letter, this character typically falls under the Hano script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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5935 Copied!
UTF-8 E1 9C AF Copied!
UTF-16 17 2F Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 17 2F Copied!
URL-Quoted %E1%9C%AF Copied!
HTML hex reference ᜯ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'172F' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u172F Copied!
C and C++ \u172f Copied!
C# \u172f Copied!
CSS \00172F Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(5935) Copied!
Go \u172f Copied!
JavaScript \u172F Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{172f} Copied!
JSON \u172F Copied!
Java \u172F Copied!
Lua \u{172F} Copied!
Matlab char(5935) Copied!
Perl \x{172F} Copied!
PHP \u{172f} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\172F' Copied!
PowerShell `u{172F} Copied!
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