U+1553 "ᕓ" Canadian Syllabics Fe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᕓ
U+1553 "ᕓ" Canadian Syllabics Fe is a distinct glyph within the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, primarily used to represent the syllable "fe" in the Inuktitut writing system. This character is part of a larger script developed for Indigenous languages in Canada, where each syllabic symbol encodes a consonant-vowel combination rather than a single letter. In Inuktitut, "ᕓ" is often used to transcribe sounds from the Roman alphabet, typically appearing in loanwords or proper names, and it contributes to the rich linguistic heritage of the Inuit language by providing a precise orthographic representation for that specific phonetic value.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1553 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Fe |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᕓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᕓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x95 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1553 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001553 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1553 |
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 |