U+16B3A "𖬺" Pahawh Hmong Sign Vos Thiab Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖬺
U+16B3A "𖬺" Pahawh Hmong Sign Vos Thiab is a tone mark used in the Pahawh Hmong script, which was created to write the Hmong language. This specific sign indicates a particular phonetic tone, helping to distinguish meaning between words that are otherwise spelled identically. It functions as a diacritic that modifies the pronunciation of the preceding consonant-vowel syllable, and it is part of a larger system of tone markers integral to accurately representing the tonal nature of Hmong speech.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16B3A |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Pahawh Hmong Sign Vos Thiab |
| Block | Pahawh Hmong |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖬺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖬺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAC 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDF3A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016B3A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udf3a |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Pahawh Hmong |
| Script Extensions | Pahawh Hmong |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |