Pahawh Hmong (Unicode block)

This article contains Pahawh Hmong Unicode characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of the Pahawh Hmong characters.

Pahawh Hmong is a Unicode block containing characters for writing Hmong languages.^[3]

Pahawh Hmong^[1]^[2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
U+16B0x	𖬀	𖬁	𖬂	𖬃	𖬄	𖬅	𖬆	𖬇	𖬈	𖬉	𖬊	𖬋	𖬌	𖬍	𖬎	𖬏
U+16B1x	𖬐	𖬑	𖬒	𖬓	𖬔	𖬕	𖬖	𖬗	𖬘	𖬙	𖬚	𖬛	𖬜	𖬝	𖬞	𖬟
U+16B2x	𖬠	𖬡	𖬢	𖬣	𖬤	𖬥	𖬦	𖬧	𖬨	𖬩	𖬪	𖬫	𖬬	𖬭	𖬮	𖬯
U+16B3x	𖬰	𖬱	𖬲	𖬳	𖬴	𖬵	𖬶	𖬷	𖬸	𖬹	𖬺	𖬻	𖬼	𖬽	𖬾	𖬿
U+16B4x	𖭀	𖭁	𖭂	𖭃	𖭄	𖭅
U+16B5x	𖭐	𖭑	𖭒	𖭓	𖭔	𖭕	𖭖	𖭗	𖭘	𖭙		𖭛	𖭜	𖭝	𖭞	𖭟
U+16B6x	𖭠	𖭡		𖭣	𖭤	𖭥	𖭦	𖭧	𖭨	𖭩	𖭪	𖭫	𖭬	𖭭	𖭮	𖭯
U+16B7x	𖭰	𖭱	𖭲	𖭳	𖭴	𖭵	𖭶	𖭷						𖭽	𖭾	𖭿
U+16B8x	𖮀	𖮁	𖮂	𖮃	𖮄	𖮅	𖮆	𖮇	𖮈	𖮉	𖮊	𖮋	𖮌	𖮍	𖮎	𖮏
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Pahawh Hmong block:

Version	Final code points^[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
7.0	U+16B00..16B45, 16B50..16B59, 16B5B..16B61, 16B63..16B77, 16B7D..16B8F	127	L2/09-234	N3603 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "10.23", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
			L2/09-145R	N3616R	Everson, Michael (2009-05-04), Preliminary proposal to encode the Pahawh Hmong script
			L2/09-252R	N3667	Everson, Michael (2009-09-14), Proposal to encode the Pahawh Hmong script in the UCS
			L2/12-013	N4175	Everson, Michael (2012-01-20), Final proposal to encode the Pahawh Hmong script in the UCS
			L2/12-112		Moore, Lisa (2012-05-17), "Consensus 131-C25", UTC #131 / L2 #228 Minutes
			L2/12-271	N4298	Everson, Michael (2012-07-24), Additional evidence of use of Pahawh Hmong clan logographs
				N4253 (pdf, doc)	"M59.15", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12
			L2/12-371	N4377	Suignard, Michel (2012-10-24), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4239 (PDAM2.2 text to ISO/IEC 10646 3rd edition)
				N4353 (pdf, doc)	"M60.05b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23
			L2/13-132		Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), "Consensus 136-C8", UTC #136 Minutes, Accept 19 Pahawh Hmong clan logographs at U+16B7D..U+16B8F for encoding in Unicode 7.0.
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
^ Everson, Michael (2012-01-20). "N4175: Final proposal to encode the Pahawh Hmong script in the UCS" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.