U+141C "ᐜ" Canadian Syllabics Ai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᐜ
U+141C "ᐜ" Canadian Syllabics Ai is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a syllabic unit used in the writing systems of various Indigenous languages of Canada, particularly those from the Algonquian language family such as Cree and Ojibwe. This character specifically denotes the sound "ai" or a similar vowel-initial syllable, and its form reflects the geometric, rotated shapes typical of Canadian Syllabics, which were originally developed by missionary James Evans in the 19th century to promote literacy among First Nations communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+141C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Ai |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᐜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᐜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x90 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x141C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000141C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u141c |
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 |