U+1562 "ᕢ" Canadian Syllabics Thii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᕢ
U+1562 "ᕢ" Canadian Syllabics Thii is a symbol from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a specific syllable sound in several Indigenous languages of Canada, particularly those in the Algonquian and Inuit language families. This character is part of a script devised by missionary James Evans in the 19th century to write Cree and later adapted for other languages, where it corresponds to the sound "thii" or a similar voiced dental fricative followed by a long "i" vowel. Its use helps preserve and transmit the phonetic and grammatical structures of these languages, and it appears in digital text and cultural materials as a vital component of written heritage for communities like the Inuktitut and Cree.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1562 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Thii |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᕢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᕢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x95 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1562 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001562 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1562 |
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 |