U+1620 "ᘠ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Jji Unicode Character

U+1620 "ᘠ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Jji is a single character in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, used to represent a specific syllable or sound in the Carrier language, an Indigenous language spoken in parts of British Columbia, Canada. This character is part of a syllabic writing system originally developed for Cree and later adapted for other languages like Carrier. It encodes the consonant-vowel combination with a "j" sound and a "ji" vowel, contributing to the phonetic representation of Carrier in digital text. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the preservation and modern usage of this Indigenous script across electronic platforms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1620
Version Added	3.0
Name	Canadian Syllabics Carrier Jji
Block	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᘠ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᘠ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x98 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1620
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001620
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1620

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