U+161F "ᘟ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Jjee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+161F "ᘟ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Jjee is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a syllable in the Carrier language, which is spoken by the Dakelh people in British Columbia, Canada. Specifically, it corresponds to the sound "dzë" or a similar affricate, and is part of a syllabary developed by missionaries in the 19th century to write the Carrier language. This character is used in modern digital text to preserve and support the written form of an Indigenous language with a relatively small number of speakers, contributing to cultural heritage and linguistic documentation efforts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+161F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Jjee |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᘟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᘟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x98 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x161F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000161F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u161f |
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 |