U+1487 "ᒇ" Canadian Syllabics South-Slavey Koh Unicode Character

U+1487 "ᒇ" Canadian Syllabics South-Slavey Koh is a glyph used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, specifically representing the consonant sound "k" combined with the vowel "o" in the South Slavey language, a dialect spoken by the Dene people in the Northwest Territories of Canada. This character is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block in Unicode, which was introduced to preserve and support the orthography of Indigenous languages across Canada. Its design follows the syllabic script's characteristic geometric shapes, where the orientation and size of the symbol can denote different vowel values, though in this case the distinct form encodes the specific South Slavey phonetic combination.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1487
Version Added	3.0
Name	Canadian Syllabics South-Slavey Koh
Block	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᒇ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᒇ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x92 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1487
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001487
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1487

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