U+1491 "ᒑ" Canadian Syllabics Caa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1491 "ᒑ" Canadian Syllabics Caa is a character from the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically used to represent the syllable "caa" in languages written with this script, such as Cree and Inuktitut. This block was added to Unicode to support the writing systems of several Indigenous languages of Canada, preserving their unique orthographic traditions. The glyph itself features a distinctive left-pointing hook or tail, typical of the syllabary’s central series, and it resembles other characters like "ᒐ" (ca) but with an added modifier to indicate the long vowel "aa". Its inclusion in Unicode helps facilitate digital communication, documentation, and revitalization of these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1491 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Caa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᒑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᒑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x92 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1491 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001491 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1491 |
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 |