U+1660 "ᙠ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tsa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1660 "ᙠ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tsa is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically representing a syllable in the Carrier language, an Athabaskan language spoken in parts of British Columbia, Canada. This character encodes the sound "tsa" and is part of a unique writing system developed for Indigenous languages, adapted from the Cree syllabary by missionary Adrien-Gabriel Morice in the late 19th century. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally support Carrier linguistics and culture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1660 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tsa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᙠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᙠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x99 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1660 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001660 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1660 |
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 |