U+157B "ᕻ" Canadian Syllabics Nunavik H Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+157B "ᕻ" Canadian Syllabics Nunavik H is a letter used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, specifically representing the sound /h/ in the Nunavik dialect of the Inuktitut language spoken in northern Quebec, Canada. Its glyph resembles a raised or angled form similar to a narrow Latin capital "H" but with distinct syllabic proportions, and it is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block in Unicode, which was added to support the diverse orthographic needs of Indigenous languages in the region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+157B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Nunavik H |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᕻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᕻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x95 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x157B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000157B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u157b |
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 |