U+1E124 "𞄤" Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞄤
U+1E124 "𞄤" Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong Letter A is a glyph used in the Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong script, which was created in the 1980s by Dr. Cherxieng Vang to represent the Hmong language spoken by the Hmong people. As the first letter of the alphabet, this character symbolizes the vowel sound /a/ and is integral to reading and writing in this script, which is designed to be distinct from other Hmong writing systems like Hmong RPA (Romanized Popular Alphabet). The character belongs to the Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong block of Unicode, added in version 12.0 (2019), ensuring digital support for a script that preserves Hmong cultural and linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E124 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong Letter A |
| Block | Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞄤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞄤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0x84 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD838 0xDD24 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E124 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud838\udd24 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong |
| Script Extensions | Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |