U+1608 "ᘈ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Mu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᘈ
U+1608 "ᘈ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Mu is a glyph used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, specifically representing the sound "mu" in the Carrier language, also known as Dakelh, spoken by the Carrier people in north-central British Columbia, Canada. It is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to support the diverse syllabic scripts used for various Indigenous languages across Canada. This character is formed by combining a consonant symbol with a small diacritic mark that indicates the vowel "u", allowing for precise phonetic representation in written texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1608 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Mu |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᘈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᘈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x98 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1608 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001608 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1608 |
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 |