U+1571 "ᕱ" Canadian Syllabics Tyi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᕱ
U+1571 "ᕱ" Canadian Syllabics Tyi is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, used primarily to represent a syllable in the Inuktitut and Cree writing systems. This character denotes the sound "tyi," which is a voiceless palatal plosive combined with the vowel i, and it is employed in the orthography of Indigenous languages in Canada to accurately transcribe their phonetic structures. As a component of a script designed to support linguistic diversity, ᕱ plays a role in preserving and promoting the written form of these languages, following a tradition of syllabic writing developed in the 19th century.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1571 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Tyi |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᕱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᕱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x95 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1571 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001571 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1571 |
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 |