U+15FC "ᗼ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Kko Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+15FC "ᗼ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Kko is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically representing a syllable used in the Carrier language, a Northern Athabaskan language spoken in parts of British Columbia, Canada. This character is formed by a vertical stroke with a small circle attached to its top left side, and it denotes the sound value of a voiceless aspirated velar stop, akin to the "k" sound with a strong puff of air, followed by the "o" vowel. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent the Carrier language, supporting its written tradition and cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+15FC |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Kko |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᗼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᗼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x97 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x15FC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000015FC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u15fc |
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 |