U+16B22 "𖬢" Pahawh Hmong Consonant Nkau Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖬢
U+16B22 "𖬢" Pahawh Hmong Consonant Nkau is part of the Pahawh Hmong script, which was invented in 1959 by Shong Lue Yang to write the Hmong language, primarily used by the Hmong people in Laos and across the diaspora. This consonant character represents the sound valued "nkau" in the second stage of the script's development, where each symbol denotes a consonant and an inherent vowel. The Pahawh Hmong block in Unicode, ranging from U+16B00 to U+16B8F, encodes these unique glyphs to support digital preservation of a writing system that emerged from a visionary cultural movement.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16B22 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Pahawh Hmong Consonant Nkau |
| Block | Pahawh Hmong |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖬢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖬢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAC 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDF22 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016B22 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udf22 |