U+14D5 "ᓕ" Canadian Syllabics Li Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+14D5 "ᓕ" Canadian Syllabics Li is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing the syllable "li" in various Indigenous languages of Canada, such as Cree and Inuktitut. It is constructed with a distinctive geometric design, featuring a left-leaning vertical line and a rightward-facing chevron or hook, which visually encodes the consonant-vowel combination. This character is part of a writing system developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans, specifically adapted to the phonological structures of these languages, and it is used in modern digital text to preserve and transmit Indigenous linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+14D5 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Li |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᓕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᓕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x93 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x14D5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000014D5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u14d5 |
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 |