U+1572 "ᕲ" Canadian Syllabics Tyo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᕲ
U+1572 "ᕲ" Canadian Syllabics Tyo is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically representing a syllable used in the Inuktitut language to denote the sound "tyo". This character is part of a writing system developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans for Indigenous languages, and it is typically written in text where it serves as a distinct phonetic unit within words. Like other syllabic characters, "ᕲ" is used in modern digital typography to support the accurate representation and preservation of Canadian Aboriginal languages, particularly in educational and cultural contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1572 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Tyo |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᕲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᕲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x95 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1572 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001572 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1572 |
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 |