U+15AF "ᖯ" Canadian Syllabics Aivilik B Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᖯ
U+15AF "ᖯ" Canadian Syllabics Aivilik B is a glyph used within the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script, specifically representing a consonant sound in the Aivilik dialect of the Inuit language. This character corresponds to the voiced bilabial stop, much like the English letter "b", and is part of a writing system that was adapted for various Indigenous languages in Canada. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that the Aivilik dialect, spoken in parts of Nunavut, can be accurately typed and digitally preserved across different platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+15AF |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Aivilik B |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᖯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᖯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x96 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x15AF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000015AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u15af |
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 |