U+165B "ᙛ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tsu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+165B "ᙛ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tsu is a glyph used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, specifically representing a sound in the Carrier language, also known as Dakelh, spoken by the Carrier people in central British Columbia, Canada. This character corresponds to the syllabic unit "tsu," blending the consonant "ts" with the vowel "u" into a single distinct symbol, and it is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block of the Unicode standard. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital preservation and representation of Indigenous languages, enabling accurate text rendering and written communication for Carrier communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+165B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tsu |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᙛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᙛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x99 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x165B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000165B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u165b |
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 |