U+148A "ᒊ" Canadian Syllabics Caai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᒊ
U+148A "ᒊ" Canadian Syllabics Caai is a glyph used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, specifically representing a syllable sound in languages like Cree and Inuktitut. This character is formed from the standard syllabic form for "ca" with an attached final diacritic, indicating a long vowel or a specific phonetic variation. It is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block in Unicode, which was encoded to support the diverse Indigenous languages of Canada in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+148A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Caai |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᒊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᒊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x92 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x148A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000148A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u148a |
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 |