U+15A2 "ᖢ" Canadian Syllabics Lho Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+15A2 "ᖢ" Canadian Syllabics Lho is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a specific syllable in the Inuktitut and other Indigenous writing systems of Canada. This character is composed of the consonant sound "L" combined with the vowel "ho", forming the syllable "lho". It is part of a larger script developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans to facilitate literacy among Indigenous communities, and it remains in use today for writing languages such as Inuktitut, Cree, and Ojibwe. The character appears as a distinctive curved shape, reflecting the geometric and angular design principles of the syllabary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+15A2 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Lho |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᖢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᖢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x96 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x15A2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000015A2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u15a2 |
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 |