U+14DB "ᓛ" Canadian Syllabics Laa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᓛ
U+14DB "ᓛ" Canadian Syllabics Laa is a character used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, specifically representing the syllable "laa" in languages such as Cree and Inuktitut. This script was developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans for indigenous languages across Canada, and the character features a distinct geometric form typical of the syllabary, with a vertical stem and two small dots on the left side indicating the vowel length.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+14DB |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Laa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᓛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᓛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x93 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x14DB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000014DB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u14db |
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 |