U+14F4 "ᓴ" Canadian Syllabics Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᓴ
U+14F4 "ᓴ" Canadian Syllabics Sa is a glyph used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, primarily employed for writing the Inuktitut language and some dialects of Cree. This character represents the syllabic sound "sa" and is part of a script originally created in the 19th century by missionary James Evans for transcribing Indigenous languages. In modern use, it appears in digital text and typography, helping to preserve and facilitate communication in these languages within Unicode’s unified encoding standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+14F4 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Sa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᓴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᓴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x93 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x14F4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000014F4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u14f4 |
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 |