U+142E "ᐮ" Canadian Syllabics An Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᐮ
U+142E "ᐮ" Canadian Syllabics An is a character used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, primarily for languages like Inuktitut and Cree, where it represents a specific syllabic sound that combines the consonant "n" with the vowel "a." This script was developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans to transcribe indigenous languages and is now encoded in Unicode to support digital communication and preservation of these languages. The character "ᐮ" is distinguished by its angular, leftward-pointing shape, which aligns with the geometric style typical of the syllabary, and it appears in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block of Unicode.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+142E |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics An |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᐮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᐮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x90 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x142E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000142E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u142e |
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 |