TAGBANWA LETTER BA character

TAGBANWA LETTER BA
U+176A
5994
ᝪ
ᝪ
Lo (Letter, Other)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Tagbanwa
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
ᝪ












TAGBANWA LETTER BA is other letters, including syllables and ideographs from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of TAGBANWA LETTER BA 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 Tagbanwa block. The Tagbanwa block includes characters used in the Tagbanwa script, used by the Tagbanwa people of the Philippines. This script is an abugida, with each consonant representing a syllable that includes an inherent vowel sound. This block contains characters for consonants, vowels, and a few punctuation marks. The Tagbanwa script is one of the many indigenous scripts in the Philippines that were used before the arrival of the Spanish and the adoption of the Latin alphabet. Today, the script is still used in some traditional contexts and is part of the cultural heritage of the Tagbanwa people..