U+1653 "ᙓ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1653 "ᙓ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Sa is a glyph used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system to represent a specific syllable sound in the Carrier language, a Northern Athabaskan language spoken in parts of British Columbia, Canada. This character is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, which was encoded in Unicode to support the preservation and digital use of Indigenous languages. The symbol itself resembles a rotated or mirrored form of the Latin letter "P" and corresponds to the phoneme "sa" in Carrier orthography. Its inclusion in Unicode helps ensure that Carrier speakers and linguists can accurately type and display this essential component of their written language in modern digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1653 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Sa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᙓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᙓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x99 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1653 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001653 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1653 |
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 |