U+142B "ᐫ" Canadian Syllabics En Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᐫ
U+142B "ᐫ" Canadian Syllabics En is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, used primarily in the writing systems of Indigenous languages in Canada, such as Cree and Inuktitut. This specific glyph represents a syllabic unit that typically corresponds to an "en" sound, functioning as a distinct phonetic unit within those languages' orthographies. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately represent and preserve the written form of these languages, supporting linguistic documentation and communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+142B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics En |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᐫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᐫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x90 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x142B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000142B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u142b |
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 |