U+14EF "ᓯ" Canadian Syllabics Si Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᓯ
U+14EF "ᓯ" Canadian Syllabics Si is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing the syllable "si" in various Indigenous writing systems such as Cree, Ojibwe, and Inuktitut. This character is part of a script developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans to transcribe the languages of Indigenous peoples in Canada, using a combination of rotated and modified shapes to denote different vowel sounds. Visually, "ᓯ" resembles a compact, angular form with a distinctive hooked tail, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital representation and preservation for linguistic documentation, education, and cultural communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+14EF |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Si |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᓯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᓯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x93 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x14EF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000014EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u14ef |
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 |