U+14C8 "ᓈ" Canadian Syllabics Naa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᓈ
U+14C8 "ᓈ" Canadian Syllabics Naa is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing the syllable "naa" in languages such as Cree and Inuktitut. This character is formed by adding a vertical line above the base syllabic form "ᓇ" (na) to indicate a long vowel, specifically the long "aa" sound, distinguishing it from the short "na" syllable. It is part of a writing system developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans for Indigenous languages in Canada, and is still used today in various orthographies and digital text encoding for accurate linguistic representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+14C8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Naa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᓈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᓈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x93 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x14C8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000014C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u14c8 |
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 |