U+14C3 "ᓃ" Canadian Syllabics Nii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᓃ
U+14C3 "ᓃ" Canadian Syllabics Nii is a glyph used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, representing the sound "nii" in languages such as Inuktitut and various dialects of Cree. Its visual form consists of a tall vertical line with a small triangular shape or notch at the top right, indicating the specific vowel quality. This character is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block in Unicode, which was standardized to support the preservation and digital use of Indigenous languages across Canada, enabling accurate text representation in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+14C3 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Nii |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᓃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᓃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x93 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x14C3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000014C3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u14c3 |
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 |