U+165C "ᙜ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tso Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+165C "ᙜ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tso is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically representing a syllable in the Carrier language, which is an Athabaskan language spoken by the Dakelh people in British Columbia, Canada. This character is used in the Carrier writing system to denote a sound typically transcribed as "tso," and it belongs to the set of characters that help preserve and facilitate written communication for this Indigenous language. Like other Canadian Syllabics, it was developed by missionaries and adapted over time to accurately reflect the phonetic structure of Carrier, aiding in literacy and cultural continuity among its speakers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+165C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tso |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᙜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᙜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x99 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x165C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000165C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u165c |
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 |