U+16F2F "饢集" Miao Letter Dzha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饢集
U+16F2F "饢集" Miao Letter Dzha is part of the Miao script, also known as Pollard Miao, which was developed in the early 20th century by missionaries to write various Hmong-Mien languages. This particular character represents a consonant sound similar to a retroflex or palatal affricate, often transcribed as "dzha" in romanization. It appears in text as a distinctive, curved symbol from the Miao syllabary, primarily used in religious and educational materials for Hmong communities in China and Southeast Asia. The inclusion of this character in Unicode supports the digital preservation and modern communication of the Miao writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16F2F |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Miao Letter Dzha |
| Block | Miao |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖼯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖼯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xBC 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81B 0xDF2F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016F2F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81b\udf2f |