U+16F42 "𖽂" Miao Letter Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖽂
U+16F42 "𖽂" Miao Letter Wa is a part of the Miao script, also known as Pollard Miao, which was historically developed by missionary Samuel Pollard in the early 20th century to write the Miao languages spoken by various ethnic groups in China and Southeast Asia. This specific character represents the sound equivalent to the letter "W" in the Miao phonetic system, and it is used in the Miao script block of Unicode, which ranges from U+16F00 to U+16F9F. The inclusion of this character in Unicode ensures that the Miao language can be digitally represented and preserved, supporting the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Miao people in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16F42 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Miao Letter Wa |
| Block | Miao |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖽂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖽂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xBD 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81B 0xDF42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016F42 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81b\udf42 |