U+165A "ᙚ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Sh Unicode Character

U+165A "ᙚ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Sh is a symbol used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, specifically representing a sound in the Carrier language, which belongs to the Athabaskan language family of Indigenous peoples in British Columbia, Canada. This character, known as "Sh," corresponds to the pronunciation of the /ʃ/ phoneme, similar to the "sh" sound in English, and forms part of the broader syllabic script developed for Indigenous languages to facilitate literacy and preserve linguistic heritage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+165A
Version Added	3.0
Name	Canadian Syllabics Carrier Sh
Block	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᙚ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᙚ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x99 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x165A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000165A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u165a

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