U+1591 "ᖑ" Canadian Syllabics Ngo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᖑ
U+1591 "ᖑ" Canadian Syllabics Ngo is a symbol used in the Indigenous Canadian Syllabics writing system, primarily designed for languages such as Cree, Inuktitut, and Ojibwe. This character represents the syllable sound "ngo" and is part of a larger script that was historically developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans to facilitate literacy among Indigenous communities. The syllabics system arranges characters in a grid-like pattern, with rotations or modifications of a basic shape indicating different vowel sounds, and "ᖑ" specifically employs a distinct form to denote its unique consonant-vowel combination.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1591 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Ngo |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᖑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᖑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x96 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1591 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001591 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1591 |
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 |