U+1436 "ᐶ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Hee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1436 "ᐶ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Hee is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically representing a syllable in the Carrier language of the Dene (Athabaskan) family. This character corresponds to the sound "hee" and is a distinct glyph used in the Carrier writing system, which employs a syllabic script where each character denotes a consonant vowel combination. It is part of a larger set of syllabics historically adapted by missionaries and linguists for transcribing various Indigenous languages in Canada, and its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital preservation and use of the Carrier language in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1436 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Hee |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᐶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᐶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x90 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1436 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001436 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1436 |
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 |