U+154C "ᕌ" Canadian Syllabics Raa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᕌ
U+154C "ᕌ" Canadian Syllabics Raa is used in the Inuktitut and Cree writing systems to represent the syllable sound equivalent to "raa," with the character consisting of a vertical stem and a distinct left-pointing top hook. It belongs to the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block of Unicode, which was added to support the diverse set of syllabic scripts used by Indigenous languages across Canada. This specific character is part of a larger set of syllabics developed in the 19th century, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard to preserve and facilitate the digital representation of these languages in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+154C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Raa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᕌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᕌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x95 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x154C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000154C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u154c |
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 |