U+146B "ᑫ" Canadian Syllabics Ke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᑫ
U+146B "ᑫ" Canadian Syllabics Ke is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing the consonant sound "ke" in various Indigenous languages of Canada, most notably Cree and Inuktitut. Its glyph design consists of a distinct angular shape, typical of Canadian syllabic scripts, with a left-leaning vertical stroke and a closed or open side. This character is part of a standardized writing system developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans to transcribe Indigenous languages, and it remains in active digital use today for preserving and communicating these languages in modern text environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+146B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Ke |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᑫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᑫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x91 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x146B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000146B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u146b |
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 |