U+15A5 "ᖥ" Canadian Syllabics Lhaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᖥ
U+15A5 "ᖥ" Canadian Syllabics Lhaa is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a consonant sound used primarily in the Inuit languages as a syllabic character for the syllable "lhaa". This script was developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans for writing Cree and later adapted for Inuktitut and other Indigenous languages across Canada. The character "ᖥ" is employed in modern digital text to preserve and represent the distinct phonetic and orthographic systems of these languages, supporting cultural and linguistic heritage in written communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+15A5 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Lhaa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᖥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᖥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x96 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x15A5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000015A5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u15a5 |
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 |