U+163F "ᘿ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tla Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᘿ
U+163F "ᘿ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tla is a single character within the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a specific syllabic sound in the Carrier language, also known as Dakelh, which is spoken by the Carrier people in central British Columbia, Canada. This glyph is part of a writing system originally developed for Indigenous languages, and "Tla" denotes a syllable featuring a velar or lateral consonant followed by an "a" vowel sound. The character is used in written Carrier texts to accurately transcribe the phonetics of the language, supporting efforts for language preservation and literacy among Carrier communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+163F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tla |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᘿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᘿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x98 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x163F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000163F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u163f |
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 |