U+1402 "ᐂ" Canadian Syllabics Aai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᐂ
U+1402 "ᐂ" Canadian Syllabics Aai is a specific glyph used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, which is primarily used to write several Indigenous languages of Canada, including Cree, Ojibwe, and Inuktitut. This character represents a syllable sound equivalent to "aai" or a long "ai" vowel, forming part of a larger set of characters designed to transcribe the phonetic structures of these languages. The Canadian Syllabics script was created in the 19th century by missionary James Evans and has since been encoded into Unicode to support digital text representation and preservation of these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1402 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Aai |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᐂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᐂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x90 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1402 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001402 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1402 |
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 | Canadian Aboriginal |
| Script Extensions | Canadian Aboriginal |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |