U+1601 "ᘁ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Kk Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᘁ
U+1601 "ᘁ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Kk is a glyph used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system to represent the sound [k] or [kʰ] in the Carrier language, also known as Dakelh, spoken primarily in British Columbia, Canada. This character is part of a standardized set of syllabic symbols that were developed for indigenous languages, and its specific form—a single vertical line with a small horizontal mark at the top—distinguishes it from other similar characters in the syllabary. As a component of modern digital text encoding, U+1601 ensures that Carrier speakers and writers can accurately preserve and transmit their language in electronic communications and documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1601 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Kk |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᘁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᘁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x98 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1601 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001601 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1601 |
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 |