U+162A "ᘪ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Dle Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᘪ
U+162A "ᘪ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Dle is a glyph within the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically used to represent a syllable sound in the Carrier language, a Northern Athabaskan language spoken in parts of British Columbia, Canada. This character is part of the Carrier syllabary, which was developed to write the Carrier language and employs distinct symbols for different consonant-vowel combinations. The "ᘪ" character corresponds to the sound "dle," which is a voiced alveolar lateral affricate followed by a vowel, and it is used in written Carrier to preserve and transmit the linguistic heritage of the Carrier people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+162A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Dle |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᘪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᘪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x98 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x162A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000162A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u162a |
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 |