U+1403 "ᐃ" Canadian Syllabics I Unicode Character

U+1403 "ᐃ" Canadian Syllabics I is a character used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, which was developed in the 19th century for languages such as Cree, Ojibwe, and Inuktitut. This specific character represents the vowel sound "i" and is part of a larger syllabic script where the orientation and shape of a base character denote different vowel values. It is encoded in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block of Unicode, ensuring its digital representation and preservation for computing and text processing in indigenous languages of Canada.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1403
Version Added	3.0
Name	Canadian Syllabics I
Block	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᐃ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᐃ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x90 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1403
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001403
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1403

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