U+158F "ᖏ" Canadian Syllabics Ngi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᖏ
U+158F "ᖏ" Canadian Syllabics Ngi is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, used primarily in the Inuktitut language to represent the sound "ngi." This character is part of a writing system developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans for Indigenous languages in Canada, and it follows a syllabic structure where the shape of the symbol indicates the consonant while its orientation or rotation denotes the following vowel. In Inuktitut, U+158F appears in various linguistic contexts, including proper nouns and everyday vocabulary, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital preservation and accessibility for speakers and learners of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+158F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Ngi |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᖏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᖏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x96 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x158F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000158F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u158f |
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 |