U+14D4 "ᓔ" Canadian Syllabics Laai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+14D4 "ᓔ" Canadian Syllabics Laai is a character in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a syllabic unit used in certain Indigenous languages of Canada, such as Inuktitut and Cree. This specific glyph corresponds to the sound "laai" and is formed by the combination of a final consonant shape and a diacritic or other marking to indicate the specific vowel or syllable structure. It is part of a writing system developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans to facilitate literacy in Indigenous languages, and it continues to be used in modern digital text to accurately represent these languages in written form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+14D4 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Laai |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᓔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᓔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x93 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x14D4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000014D4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u14d4 |
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 |