U+158E "ᖎ" Canadian Syllabics Ngaai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+158E "ᖎ" Canadian Syllabics Ngaai is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing the syllable "ngaai" and used primarily in writing the Inuktitut language, specifically in dialects of the Canadian Arctic. Its shape, resembling a vertical line with a looping flourish on the left, is part of a writing system that was originally adapted by missionaries and Indigenous communities to transcribe the sounds of various Algonquian and Eskimo-Aleut languages. As a standardized digital character, it ensures that texts in Inuktitut can be typed and displayed across modern devices, preserving and supporting the linguistic heritage of Canada's Indigenous peoples.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+158E |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Ngaai |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᖎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᖎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x96 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x158E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000158E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u158e |
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 |