U+15BE "ᖾ" Canadian Syllabics Blackfoot Ko Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᖾ
U+15BE "ᖾ" Canadian Syllabics Blackfoot Ko is a glyph in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a specific syllable in the Blackfoot language, an Algonquian language spoken by the Blackfoot people in parts of Montana and Alberta. This character corresponds to the consonant sound "k" combined with the vowel "o," forming the syllable "ko" in the Blackfoot writing system. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent Indigenous languages, enabling accurate text processing, communication, and archival of Blackfoot linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+15BE |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Blackfoot Ko |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᖾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᖾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x96 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x15BE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000015BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u15be |
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 |