U+1068 "ၨ" Myanmar Vowel Sign Western Pwo Karen Ue Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1068 "ၨ" Myanmar Vowel Sign Western Pwo Karen Ue is a combining diacritical mark used in the Western Pwo Karen language, a member of the Karenic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family spoken primarily in Myanmar. This vowel sign modifies a base consonant character to represent a specific vowel sound, and it is part of the Myanmar Extended block in the Unicode standard, which was added to support the orthographic needs of minority languages in the region beyond standard Burmese. Visually, it appears as a small curved mark placed above or to the right of a consonant letter, and its inclusion ensures that digital text for Western Pwo Karen can be accurately represented and preserved in modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1068 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Myanmar Vowel Sign Western Pwo Karen Ue |
| Block | Myanmar |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ၨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ၨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x81 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1068 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001068 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1068 |