U+1549 "ᕉ" Canadian Syllabics Roo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1549 "ᕉ" Canadian Syllabics Roo is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a specific syllable sound used in the Inuktitut language, where it denotes the consonant "r" combined with the vowel "oo" (a long u sound). Its glyph resembles an inverted or rotated version of other syllabic characters, reflecting the geometric design principles common to the script created by missionary James Evans for Cree and later adapted for Inuit languages. This character is encoded for digital text representation, ensuring proper display and processing of Indigenous language content in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1549 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Roo |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᕉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᕉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x95 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1549 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001549 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1549 |
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 |