U+141E "ᐞ" Canadian Syllabics Glottal Stop Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᐞ
U+141E "ᐞ" Canadian Syllabics Glottal Stop is a typographic symbol used in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script to represent a glottal stop, a consonant sound produced by a complete closure of the vocal cords. It appears in writing systems for Indigenous languages such as Inuktitut and some Algonquian languages, often functioning as a modifier or final character to indicate a distinct phonetic break. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately preserve the phonology and orthography of these languages, supporting cultural and linguistic preservation efforts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+141E |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Glottal Stop |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᐞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᐞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x90 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x141E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000141E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u141e |
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 |