U+15E8 "ᗨ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Pu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+15E8 "ᗨ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Pu is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically representing a syllabic unit used in the Carrier language, a Northern Athabaskan language spoken in parts of British Columbia, Canada. This character denotes the sound "pu" and is part of a writing system developed primarily by missionaries in the 19th century to transcribe Indigenous languages. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital preservation and accessibility for Carrier speakers, linguists, and cultural archivists, facilitating accurate text representation in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+15E8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Pu |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᗨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᗨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x97 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x15E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000015E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u15e8 |
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 |