U+16B08 "𖬈" Pahawh Hmong Vowel Keb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖬈
U+16B08 "𖬈" Pahawh Hmong Vowel Keb is a specific glyph within the Pahawh Hmong script, an indigenous writing system created in the 1950s for the Hmong language, primarily used by Hmong communities in Laos, China, and the diaspora. This character represents the vowel sound "keb," which is one of the tone-modulated vowels in the script, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support digital text representation and preservation of the Hmong language and cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16B08 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Pahawh Hmong Vowel Keb |
| Block | Pahawh Hmong |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖬈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖬈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAC 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDF08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016B08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udf08 |