U+156E "ᕮ" Canadian Syllabics Ttha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+156E "ᕮ" Canadian Syllabics Ttha is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a phonetic sound in certain Indigenous languages of Canada, particularly Inuktitut and Cree. This specific character transcribes the voiceless aspirated dental or alveolar stop sound, similar to the "ttha" combination in English, and is part of a larger syllabic writing system developed in the 19th century for the transcription of various First Nations languages. The character is constructed with a distinct geometric shape that aligns with the visual patterns of the syllabary, which uses rotated and modified forms to denote different vowel sounds attached to a base consonant.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+156E |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Ttha |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᕮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᕮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x95 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x156E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000156E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u156e |
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 |