U+1438 "ᐸ" Canadian Syllabics Pa Unicode Character

U+1438 "ᐸ" Canadian Syllabics Pa is a character used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script, which was developed in the 19th century for writing various Indigenous languages of Canada, including Cree, Ojibwe, and Inuktitut. This specific glyph represents the syllable "pa" and is part of a writing system that typically arranges characters by rotating or modifying a basic shape to indicate different vowel sounds. Its design, a simple V‑shaped form open to the right, is visually distinct and helps to encode linguistic sounds efficiently. The inclusion of this character in Unicode ensures that it can be digitally represented, preserved, and used in modern computing for the continued documentation and communication of Indigenous languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1438
Version Added	3.0
Name	Canadian Syllabics Pa
Block	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᐸ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᐸ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x90 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1438
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001438
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1438

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