U+1E126 "𞄦" Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong Letter I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞄦
U+1E126 "𞄦" Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong Letter I is a specific glyph used in the Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong script, which was designed in the 20th century to write the Hmong language, particularly the Green Hmong dialect. This character represents the vowel sound “i,” as in the English word “machine,” and is part of a modern writing system created by Reverend Cher Pao Xiong to improve literacy among Hmong communities. The inclusion of this letter in the Unicode Standard ensures that Hmong speakers can digitally represent their language, supporting cultural preservation and communication in electronic texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E126 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong Letter I |
| Block | Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞄦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞄦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0x84 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD838 0xDD26 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E126 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud838\udd26 |
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 |