U+162F "ᘯ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Lho Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+162F "ᘯ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Lho is a glyph within the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a specific syllable in the Carrier language, also known as Dakelh, spoken by the Carrier people in central British Columbia, Canada. This character is composed of a rotated or modified form of the basic syllabic shapes used in the writing system, and it denotes the sound "lho," which is a voiceless lateral fricative consonant followed by a vowel. The Canadian Syllabics script was adapted for Carrier by Catholic missionaries in the 19th century, and this particular character helps preserve the unique phonetic inventory of the language, contributing to the cultural and linguistic heritage of the First Nations community that uses it.

General Properties

Code Point U+162F
Version Added 3.0
Name Canadian Syllabics Carrier Lho
Block Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᘯ
HTML Hex Encoding ᘯ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x98 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x162F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000162F
C/C++/Java Escape \u162f

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