U+1529 "ᔩ" Canadian Syllabics Yii Unicode Character

U+1529 "ᔩ" Canadian Syllabics Yii is a letter in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script, a writing system developed in the 19th century primarily for Cree and Ojibwe languages, and later adapted for other Indigenous languages across Canada. This specific character represents the syllable sound "yii," and it is composed of a basic geometric shape rotated or modified to denote the specific vowel and consonant combination. In text, it functions as a single character in a syllabary, where each character corresponds to a complete syllable rather than a single consonant or vowel, making it integral to the accurate written representation of languages that use this script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1529
Version Added	3.0
Name	Canadian Syllabics Yii
Block	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᔩ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᔩ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x94 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1529
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001529
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1529

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