U+1547 "ᕇ" Canadian Syllabics Rii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᕇ
U+1547 "ᕇ" Canadian Syllabics Rii is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically representing the syllable sound "rii" as used in the Inuktitut and Cree writing systems. This character is constructed by combining the basic syllabic form for "ri" with a small superscript dot or diacritic, which in the Canadian Syllabics script indicates a lengthening or modification of the vowel sound to produce the long "ii" pronunciation. It is encoded for digital text to support the accurate representation of Indigenous languages of Canada, allowing for proper spelling and communication in contexts ranging from official documents to everyday writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1547 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Rii |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᕇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᕇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x95 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1547 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001547 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1547 |
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 |