U+163A "ᘺ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tlu Unicode Character

U+163A "ᘺ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tlu is a character from the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically used in the Carrier language of British Columbia, Canada. It represents a syllable pronounced as "tlu", where the stem-like vertical line and small circle attachment are typical visual elements of Carrier syllabics, a writing system developed by missionary William Henry Adams in the 19th century. This character is part of a larger set designed to phonetically transcribe the sounds of the Carrier language, which belongs to the Athabaskan family, and it is used in digital text encoding to preserve and support written communication for this Indigenous community.

General Properties

Code Point	U+163A
Version Added	3.0
Name	Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tlu
Block	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᘺ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᘺ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x98 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x163A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000163A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u163a

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