U+1619 "ᘙ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Ji Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᘙ
U+1619 "ᘙ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Ji is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block and represents a syllable in the Carrier (Dakelh) language, a Northern Athabaskan language spoken primarily in British Columbia, Canada. This character is formed as a large, loopy glyph that curves to the left with a small stem, visually distinct from other syllabic characters, and it stands for the sound "ji" in Carrier orthography. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that speakers and writers of this Indigenous language can accurately represent their writing system in digital text, supporting cultural preservation and linguistic documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1619 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Ji |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᘙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᘙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x98 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1619 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001619 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1619 |
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 |