U+161A "ᘚ" Canadian Syllabics Sayisi Ji Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᘚ
U+161A "ᘚ" Canadian Syllabics Sayisi Ji is a symbol from the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script, specifically representing a syllable used in the Sayisi dialect of the Dene language, also known as Chipewyan. This character, shaped like a simple vertical line with a small horizontal tick at the top right, corresponds to the sound commonly transcribed as "ji" in linguistic notation. It forms part of a larger writing system developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans and later adapted for various Indigenous languages across Canada, serving as a vital tool for preserving and transmitting the Sayisi variant of Dene oral and written traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+161A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Sayisi Ji |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᘚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᘚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x98 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x161A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000161A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u161a |
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 |