U+15F8 "ᗸ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Khee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+15F8 "ᗸ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Khee is a letter from the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script, specifically used in writing the Carrier language, an indigenous language spoken in parts of British Columbia, Canada. This character represents the syllabic sound "khee" and is part of a larger set of symbols designed to represent the distinct phonetic structures of Carrier and related languages. It appears as a stylized geometric glyph, typical of the syllabary’s visual system, and plays a role in preserving and documenting indigenous linguistic heritage through digital text encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+15F8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Khee |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᗸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᗸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x97 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x15F8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000015F8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u15f8 |
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 |