U+1600 "ᘀ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Kka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1600 "ᘀ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Kka is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a specific syllabic sound used in the Carrier language, an Athabaskan language spoken in parts of British Columbia, Canada. This character, pronounced as "kka," is part of a writing system developed by missionaries in the 19th century to transcribe Indigenous languages, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally support the Carrier language's unique phonetic structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1600 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Kka |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᘀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᘀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x98 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1600 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001600 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1600 |
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 |