U+1453 "ᑓ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Dee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᑓ
U+1453 "ᑓ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Dee is a component of the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script, specifically representing the syllable "dee" in the Carrier language, an Indigenous language spoken in parts of British Columbia, Canada. This character belongs to a larger set of syllabic characters designed in the 19th century for writing several Indigenous languages, and its distinctive shape combines a curved stroke with a vertical line and a dot, reflecting the visual patterns typical of this writing system. As a standardized digital glyph, U+1453 enables modern electronic communication and preservation of Carrier language texts, supporting cultural revitalization and linguistic studies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1453 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Dee |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᑓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᑓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x91 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1453 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001453 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1453 |
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 |