BUHID LETTER YA character

BUHID LETTER YA
U+174C
5964
ᝌ
ᝌ
Lo (Letter, Other)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Buhid
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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BUHID LETTER YA is other letters, including syllables and ideographs from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of BUHID LETTER YA is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Other Letter (Lo) refers to letters that do not fit into the uppercase, lowercase, titlecase, or modifier letter categories. These include letters from scripts that do not have case distinction, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and others. This category is also used for syllabic and ideographic characters that function as letters.

This character belongs to the Buhid block. The Buhid block includes characters for the Buhid script, which is used by the Mangyan people in the Philippines, particularly on the island of Mindoro. The Buhid script is an abugida, where each consonant is written with an inherent vowel that can be modified by adding vowel signs. This block contains characters for all the basic consonants and vowels, as well as a few punctuation marks. The Buhid script, along with other indigenous scripts in the Philippines, is part of the country’s cultural heritage and is still used in some traditional contexts..