U+161F "ᘟ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Jjee Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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