U+1406 "ᐆ" Canadian Syllabics Oo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᐆ
U+1406 "ᐆ" Canadian Syllabics Oo is a character in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a vowel sound in several Indigenous languages of Canada, such as Cree and Ojibwe. This specific syllabic combines the shape of the letter for "o" with a small top mark or point indicating a long vowel, producing the sound similar to the English "oo" as in "boot." The Canadian Syllabics script was created in the 19th century by missionary James Evans to facilitate literacy in Indigenous languages, and characters like ᐆ remain essential for writing these languages in modern digital contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1406 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Oo |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᐆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᐆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x90 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1406 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001406 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1406 |
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 |