U+1661 "ᙡ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Chu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1661 "ᙡ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Chu is a letter in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script specifically used for writing the Carrier language, where it represents the syllable "chu" with a distinct rounded glottalized sound. This character belongs to the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block and is historically derived from the missionary adaptations of the Cree syllabary for the Dene languages in British Columbia. Its visual form features a curved hook-like shape with a central dot, reflecting the syllabic system’s geometric patterns that encode both consonant and vowel information in a single glyph.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1661 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Chu |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᙡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᙡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x99 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1661 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001661 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1661 |
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 |