U+16B43 "ð–ƒ" Pahawh Hmong Sign Ib Yam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–ƒ
U+16B43 "ð–ƒ" Pahawh Hmong Sign Ib Yam is a punctuation mark used in the Pahawh Hmong script, which was created in the 20th century to write the Hmong language. This character functions as a grammatical or tonal marker, specifically indicating a pause or separation in a text, similar to a comma or a period in other writing systems. Its name "Ib Yam" reflects its role in guiding the reader's interpretation of sentence structure, and it is part of a larger set of signs that enable accurate representation of Hmong speech in written form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16B43 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Pahawh Hmong Sign Ib Yam |
| Block | Pahawh Hmong |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖭃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖭃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAD 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDF43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016B43 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udf43 |