U+1437 "ᐷ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Hi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1437 "ᐷ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Hi is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block and represents a specific syllabic glyph used in the Carrier language, an Athabaskan language spoken primarily in the central interior of British Columbia, Canada. This character corresponds to the syllable sound "hi" and is written in a distinctive angular style typical of the carrier syllabary. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that this Indigenous writing system can be digitally encoded, preserved, and used in modern communication and computing environments, supporting efforts to maintain and revitalize the Carrier language and its written traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1437 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Hi |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᐷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᐷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x90 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1437 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001437 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1437 |
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 |