U+1598 "ᖘ" Canadian Syllabics Sayisi Shi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᖘ
U+1598 "ᖘ" Canadian Syllabics Sayisi Shi is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically representing a syllable used in the Sayisi dialect of the Dene language, a group of Athabaskan languages spoken in parts of Canada. This glyph is part of a writing system developed for Indigenous languages in Canada, and "ᖘ" denotes a sound that typically combines an initial consonant with a vowel, contributing to the phonetic representation of spoken words in the Sayisi community. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally support the linguistic heritage of the Dene peoples, enabling accurate text rendering and communication in modern technology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1598 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Sayisi Shi |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᖘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᖘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x96 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1598 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001598 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1598 |
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 |