U+14AB "ᒫ" Canadian Syllabics Maa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+14AB "ᒫ" Canadian Syllabics Maa is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing the syllable "maa" as used in the writing systems of several Indigenous languages of Canada, such as Cree and Inuktitut. This character combines the basic syllabic form for "ma" with a dot placed over the right side of the character, which indicates a long vowel sound, transforming the short "a" into a long "aa". Its creation was part of the broader standardization of Canadian Aboriginal scripts for digital encoding, preserving linguistic traditions that use modified syllabic shapes to denote vowel length.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+14AB |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Maa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᒫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᒫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x92 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x14AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000014AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u14ab |
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 |