U+160D "ᘍ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+160D "ᘍ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Ma is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block and represents a syllabic character used in the Carrier language, an indigenous language spoken primarily in British Columbia, Canada. This glyph corresponds to the consonant-vowel combination "ma" and belongs to the Carrier syllabary, which was developed to write the language in a systematic way. The character appears as a stylized, angular symbol that reflects the unique orthographic traditions of Carrier writing, and it is encoded in Unicode to support the digital preservation and communication of this endangered language, aiding in its revitalization and everyday use in modern technology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+160D |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Ma |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᘍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᘍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x98 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x160D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000160D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u160d |
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 |