U+16B13 "𖬓" Pahawh Hmong Vowel Kov Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖬓
U+16B13 "𖬓" Pahawh Hmong Vowel Kov is a glyph in the Pahawh Hmong script, a writing system invented in 1959 by Shong Lue Yang for the Hmong language. This specific character represents the vowel sound "kov" and is used in the standard orthography to denote a distinct phoneme in the Hmong language, particularly in the Green Hmong dialect. As part of the Pahawh Hmong block in Unicode, it helps preserve and digitize this indigenous script, which is written from left to right and features a unique structural design where consonants and vowels are arranged in syllabic clusters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16B13 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Pahawh Hmong Vowel Kov |
| Block | Pahawh Hmong |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖬓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖬓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAC 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDF13 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016B13 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udf13 |