U+1638 "ᘸ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tlhi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1638 "ᘸ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tlhi is a grapheme used in the written form of the Carrier language, an Indigenous language spoken in parts of British Columbia, Canada. This character belongs to the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, which was encoded in Unicode to support the syllabic writing systems developed for various First Nations languages. The symbol represents a specific syllable sound in Carrier, contributing to the accurate transcription and preservation of the language's phonetic structure. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard helps ensure that digital text processing, storage, and display can accommodate the linguistic needs of Carrier speakers and scholars.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1638 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tlhi |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᘸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᘸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x98 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1638 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001638 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1638 |
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 |