U+1470 "ᑰ" Canadian Syllabics Koo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᑰ
U+1470 "ᑰ" Canadian Syllabics Koo is a glyph used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, representing the syllable "koo." This script was developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans for Ojibwe and later adapted for Cree and other Indigenous languages, where the character's form is derived from a rotated or reflected shape of the basic syllabic symbol for the "k" series. In practice, "ᑰ" appears in written texts of Cree, Inuktitut, and related languages to phonetically denote the long or closed "oo" sound after a velar consonant, contributing to the preservation and daily use of these languages in digital and print media.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1470 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Koo |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᑰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᑰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x91 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1470 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001470 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1470 |
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 |