U+162B "ᘫ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Dlee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+162B "ᘫ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Dlee is part of the Unicode block for Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, specifically representing a syllable used in the Carrier language, a Northern Athabaskan language spoken in parts of British Columbia, Canada. This character denotes the sound "dlee" and is one of many syllabic characters adapted from the original Cree syllabary script, which was later modified for other Indigenous languages in Canada. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent the Carrier language, supporting cultural documentation and modern communication for its speakers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+162B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Dlee |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᘫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᘫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x98 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x162B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000162B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u162b |
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 |