U+16B44 "ð–„" Pahawh Hmong Sign Xaus Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16B44 "ð–„" Pahawh Hmong Sign Xaus is a punctuation mark from the Pahawh Hmong script, an indigenous writing system devised in the 20th century for the Hmong language. It functions as a full stop or period, signaling the end of a major sentence or text segment, and plays a key role in clearly structuring written Hmong text. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally support this culturally important script, which was developed to transcribe the Hmong language in a unique, syllabic way.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16B44 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Pahawh Hmong Sign Xaus |
| 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 0xAD 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDF44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016B44 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udf44 |
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 | Break After |
| Script | Pahawh Hmong |
| Script Extensions | Pahawh Hmong |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Terminal Punctuation | Yes |
| Sentence Terminal | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | STerm |