U+15FB "ᗻ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Kku Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+15FB "ᗻ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Kku is a glyph within the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically representing a syllable in the Carrier language, which is an Athabaskan language spoken by the Carrier people in British Columbia, Canada. This character encodes the sound "kku" and is part of a writing system developed by missionary and linguist Adrien-Gabriel Morice in the late 19th century to transcribe the Carrier language. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures the digital preservation and accessibility of this indigenous script for modern communication and cultural documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+15FB |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Kku |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᗻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᗻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x97 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x15FB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000015FB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u15fb |
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 |