U+1490 "ᒐ" Canadian Syllabics Ca Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᒐ
U+1490 "ᒐ" Canadian Syllabics Ca is a glyph used within the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script, primarily for writing the Cree language and other Indigenous languages of Canada. This character represents a syllable starting with the consonant sound "c" (often pronounced like a hard "ch" or "t" in some dialects) followed by the vowel "a". It is part of a unified system that was historically developed for Indigenous literacy and is encoded in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block of the Unicode standard, allowing for digital representation and preservation of these languages in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1490 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Ca |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᒐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᒐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x92 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1490 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001490 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1490 |
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 |