U+1426 "ᐦ" Canadian Syllabics Final Double Short Vertical Strokes Unicode Character

U+1426 "ᐦ" Canadian Syllabics Final Double Short Vertical Strokes is a glyph used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, specifically functioning as a final modifier to indicate a glottal stop or to modify the vowel quality of the preceding syllabic character. It consists of two short vertical strokes placed at the end of a syllable, often appearing in languages like Cree or Ojibwe to denote a distinct phonetic closure. This character is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block and is encoded for digital text to accurately represent the writing traditions of Indigenous Canadian languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1426
Version Added	3.0
Name	Canadian Syllabics Final Double Short Vertical Strokes
Block	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᐦ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᐦ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x90 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1426
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001426
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1426

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