U+1431 "ᐱ" Canadian Syllabics Pi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᐱ
U+1431 "ᐱ" Canadian Syllabics Pi is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing the syllable "pi" in various Indigenous languages of Canada, such as Cree and Inuktitut. It belongs to a script developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans to facilitate writing of these languages, and its visual form features a vertical stem with a small triangular or angled element to the left, reflecting the geometric and simplified style typical of the syllabary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1431 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Pi |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᐱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᐱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x90 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1431 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001431 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1431 |
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 |