U+1420 "ᐠ" Canadian Syllabics Final Grave Unicode Character

U+1420 "ᐠ" Canadian Syllabics Final Grave is a character used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script, specifically to represent a final or terminal grapheme that modifies the sound of a preceding syllable, often indicating a glottal stop or a change in vowel quality. It appears as a small, left-leaning diagonal line placed above the baseline, functioning as a diacritic mark rather than an independent syllabic unit. This character is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block and is utilized in writing systems for languages such as Cree and Inuktitut, where it helps convey precise pronunciation by marking the ending of a syllable with a distinctive tonal or phonetic closure.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1420
Version Added	3.0
Name	Canadian Syllabics Final Grave
Block	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᐠ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᐠ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x90 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1420
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001420
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1420

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