U+14EC "ᓬ" Canadian Syllabics Medial L Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+14EC "ᓬ" Canadian Syllabics Medial L is a glyph used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, specifically representing a medial or middle form of the consonant sound "l" within a syllable. Unlike the full or final forms of syllabic characters, this medial variant appears in the middle of a word or syllable block, often connecting to adjacent characters to indicate a specific phonetic positioning. It is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block in Unicode, which supports languages such as Cree, Inuktitut, and Ojibwe, where syllabic scripts are traditionally written without spaces between syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+14EC |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Medial L |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᓬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᓬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x93 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x14EC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000014EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u14ec |
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 |