U+16B81 "𖮁" Pahawh Hmong Clan Sign Xyooj Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖮁
U+16B81 "𖮁" Pahawh Hmong Clan Sign Xyooj is a specific character within the Pahawh Hmong script, an indigenous writing system created in the mid-20th century for the Hmong language. This character represents a clan sign, specifically the Xyooj clan, one of the major Hmong clans, and is used to denote clan membership or affiliation in written contexts. The Pahawh Hmong script, including this clan sign, was developed to preserve and promote Hmong cultural identity and literacy, and it was added to the Unicode standard in 2014 as part of the SMP Supplementary Multilingual Plane to support its digital use across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16B81 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Pahawh Hmong Clan Sign Xyooj |
| Block | Pahawh Hmong |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖮁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖮁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAE 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDF81 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016B81 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udf81 |