U+161B "ᘛ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Ja Unicode Character

U+161B "ᘛ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Ja is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically used to represent a syllable in the Carrier language, a Northern Athabaskan language spoken in British Columbia, Canada. This character is encoded to support the written form of Carrier, which utilizes a syllabic script adapted from the original Cree syllabary, and "Ja" corresponds to a sound that blends a consonant "j" (as in English "yes") with the vowel "a". Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent the linguistic heritage of the Carrier people, enabling accurate text rendering and communication in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+161B
Version Added	3.0
Name	Canadian Syllabics Carrier Ja
Block	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᘛ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᘛ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x98 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x161B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000161B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u161b

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