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