U+156F "ᕯ" Canadian Syllabics Tth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᕯ
U+156F "ᕯ" Canadian Syllabics Tth is a glyph from the unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, used primarily in writing the Inuktitut language. This specific character represents the syllable sound "tth," a voiceless dental fricative that is notable for being one of the few consonant clusters encoded as a single syllabic unit. It appears as a stylized, angular symbol that reflects the geometric design principles common to the script, which was originally created by missionary James Evans in the 19th century. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally support Indigenous languages of Canada, enabling accurate text representation and communication in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+156F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Tth |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᕯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᕯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x95 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x156F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000156F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u156f |
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 |