U+165E "ᙞ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tsee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+165E "ᙞ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tsee is a glyph within the Unicode standard's Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a specific syllable from the Carrier language, an Indigenous language spoken in parts of British Columbia, Canada. This character corresponds to the sound "tsee" and is derived from the traditional writing system developed for Carrier, which adapts the basic syllabic shapes to represent distinct consonant vowel combinations. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent the written form of the Carrier language, supporting linguistic documentation and communication for its speakers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+165E |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tsee |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᙞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᙞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x99 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x165E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000165E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u165e |
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 |