U+164B "ᙋ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Dzee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+164B "ᙋ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Dzee is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing the syllable sound "dze" in the Carrier language, also known as Dakelh, spoken by the Carrier people in central British Columbia, Canada. This script was developed by missionaries in the 19th century to transcribe Indigenous languages, and each character typically denotes a complete syllable. The glyph itself appears as a compact, angled symbol with a small central bar, distinguishing it from related syllabics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+164B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Dzee |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᙋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᙋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x99 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x164B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000164B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u164b |
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 |