U+154C "ᕌ" Canadian Syllabics Raa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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