U+16F68 "饢建" Miao Vowel Sign Iu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饢建
U+16F68 "饢建" Miao Vowel Sign Iu is a combining diacritical mark used in the Miao script, specifically within the Pollard Miao orthography, to represent a vowel sound similar to "iu." This character is part of the Miao block of Unicode, which encodes the writing system developed by missionary Samuel Pollard for transcribing the Miao (Hmong) languages of southern China and Southeast Asia. It appears as a small superscript sign that attaches to a base consonant letter, modifying its pronunciation by indicating the presence of the "iu" vowel. The inclusion of U+16F68 in Unicode helps preserve and digitally support the Miao script, enabling its use in modern text processing and communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16F68 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Miao Vowel Sign Iu |
| 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 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81B 0xDF68 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016F68 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81b\udf68 |