U+14F0 "ᓰ" Canadian Syllabics Sii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+14F0 "ᓰ" Canadian Syllabics Sii is a character within the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a specific syllable sound in the writing system used for various Indigenous languages of Canada, including Cree, Ojibwe, and Inuktitut. It denotes the syllable "sii," where the final vowel is a long "ii" sound, and is formed by combining the consonant shape for "s" with a small upward mark or dot to indicate vowel length. This character is part of a larger syllabary system developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans to transcribe Indigenous languages, and it continues to be used today in educational materials, official documents, and digital contexts to support language preservation and literacy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+14F0 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Sii |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᓰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᓰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x93 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x14F0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000014F0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u14f0 |
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 |