U+162E "ᘮ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Lhu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+162E "ᘮ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Lhu is a glyph within the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a specific syllabic sound in the Carrier language, a Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Carrier people in British Columbia, Canada. This character functions as a single symbol for the consonant-vowel sequence pronounced "lhu," contributing to the phonetic writing system developed by missionaries in the 19th century to transcribe Indigenous languages. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital preservation and accessibility for Carrier speakers and linguists studying the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+162E |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Lhu |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᘮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᘮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x98 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x162E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000162E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u162e |
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 |