U+1516 "ᔖ" Canadian Syllabics Shaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1516 "ᔖ" Canadian Syllabics Shaa is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a syllabic character used in Indigenous languages such as Cree, Inuktitut, and Ojibwe to denote the sound "shaa." This character is composed of a rotated "sha" glyph with a central dot, reflecting the orthographic standardization of syllabic writing systems developed by missionaries and later adopted by Indigenous communities across Canada. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally support these languages, ensuring the character can be correctly displayed and transmitted across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1516 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Shaa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᔖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᔖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x94 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1516 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001516 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1516 |
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 |