U+16B40 "ð–€" Pahawh Hmong Sign Vos Seev Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–€
U+16B40 "ð–€" Pahawh Hmong Sign Vos Seev is a punctuation mark used in the Pahawh Hmong script, which was invented to write the Hmong language, primarily spoken by the Hmong people in China, Laos, Vietnam, and the diaspora. This specific sign, known as "Vos Seev," functions as a period or full stop, indicating the end of a sentence or a major grammatical break in a text. It is part of the Pahawh Hmong block in the Unicode standard, added to support the digital representation of this unique script, which was created by Shong Lue Yang in the mid-20th century and features distinct tonal and consonant symbols.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16B40 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Pahawh Hmong Sign Vos Seev |
| Block | Pahawh Hmong |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖭀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖭀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAD 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDF40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016B40 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udf40 |