U+165F "ᙟ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tsi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᙟ
U+165F "ᙟ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tsi is a letter from the unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically used in the Carrier language writing system to represent the syllable sound "tsi" with a low tone or vowel length often indicated by the vertical bar above the character. This syllabic script was developed in the 19th century by missionaries for Indigenous languages in Canada, and the "ᙟ" glyph exemplifies how Carrier syllabics employ diacritic-like marks to modify base consonant symbols for different vowel qualities, distinguishing it from related scripts like Cree. The character remains important for modern digital representation of Carrier orthography in documents and online communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+165F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tsi |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᙟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᙟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x99 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x165F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000165F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u165f |
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 |