U+1613 "ᘓ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Ya Unicode Character

U+1613 "ᘓ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Ya is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a syllabic character used in the Dene language, also known as Carrier, which is spoken by indigenous communities in British Columbia, Canada. This character specifically denotes the sound "ya," functioning as a consonant-vowel combination within the Carrier writing system, which was adapted from the script originally developed by missionary James Evans for Cree and later modified for other First Nations languages. It encodes part of a phonetic tradition that preserves the linguistic heritage of the Carrier people, contributing to modern digital text representation and language revitalization efforts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1613
Version Added	3.0
Name	Canadian Syllabics Carrier Ya
Block	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᘓ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᘓ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x98 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1613
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001613
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1613

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