U+1427 "ᐧ" Canadian Syllabics Final Middle Dot Unicode Character

U+1427 "ᐧ" Canadian Syllabics Final Middle Dot is a small, raised dot used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, primarily to indicate a vowel length or a specific phonetic modification when placed after a syllabic character. Unlike the period or middle dot used in other scripts, this character serves as a diacritical mark within that orthography, often appearing at the end of a syllable to show that the preceding vowel is held longer or to denote a glottal stop in certain languages like Cree and Inuktitut. Its design is simple, featuring a single central dot positioned above the baseline, and it is distinct from the similarly shaped hyphenation point or bullet because of its specific linguistic role within the syllabary.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1427
Version Added	3.0
Name	Canadian Syllabics Final Middle Dot
Block	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᐧ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᐧ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x90 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1427
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001427
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1427

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