U+148B "ᒋ" Canadian Syllabics Ci Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᒋ
U+148B "ᒋ" Canadian Syllabics Ci is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing the syllable sound "ci" as used in languages such as Cree and Inuktitut. Its glyph is composed of a vertical line with a small chevron shape attached to the upper right, reflecting the geometric style common to Canadian Aboriginal writing systems. This script was developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans to facilitate literacy among Indigenous communities, and "Ci" is part of a larger set of syllable characters that denote consonant-vowel combinations, where the orientation and shape of the character indicate the vowel sound following the consonant.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+148B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Ci |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᒋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᒋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x92 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x148B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000148B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u148b |
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 |