U+1584 "ᖄ" Canadian Syllabics Qaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1584 "ᖄ" Canadian Syllabics Qaa is a character used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, specifically representing the syllable "qaa," which begins with the velar or uvular sound /q/ and ends with a long vowel /aː/. This character is part of a larger script developed in the 19th century for various Indigenous languages of Canada, including Inuktitut and Cree, and it is encoded in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block of the Unicode Standard to ensure its digital representation across modern computing devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1584 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Qaa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᖄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᖄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x96 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1584 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001584 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1584 |
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 |