U+16F60 "ð–½ " Miao Vowel Sign Oey Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–½
U+16F60 "ð–½ " Miao Vowel Sign Oey is a combining diacritical mark used in the Miao script, specifically within the Pollard Miao orthography, to represent a vowel sound that is typically transcribed as "oe" or "øy" in romanization. Placed above or attached to a consonant character, it modifies the syllable's pronunciation by indicating a distinct rounded front vowel quality, similar to the sound found in some dialects of Hmong or related Miao languages. This character belongs to the Miao Unicode block, which was added to the standard to support the digital preservation and accurate rendering of the Pollard script, a writing system historically developed by missionaries for transcribing Miao languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16F60 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Miao Vowel Sign Oey |
| Block | Miao |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖽠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖽠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xBD 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81B 0xDF60 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016F60 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81b\udf60 |