U+15ED "ᗭ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+15ED "ᗭ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Pa is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically representing a syllable in the Carrier language, an Athabaskan language spoken by the Dakelh people in British Columbia, Canada. This character is part of a writing system developed by missionaries in the 19th century to transcribe Indigenous languages, and it denotes the sound "pa," functioning as a standalone syllabic unit. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent endangered linguistic heritage, allowing for proper text rendering and communication in Carrier orthography across modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+15ED |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Pa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᗭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᗭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x97 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x15ED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000015ED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u15ed |
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 |