U+1663 "ᙣ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Che Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᙣ
U+1663 "ᙣ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Che is a letter used in the writing system for the Carrier language, an Indigenous language spoken primarily in the central interior of British Columbia, Canada. Representing the sound "che," this character is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, which was designed to encode various syllabic scripts used across Canadian Indigenous languages. Its appearance features a distinct, angular shape typical of Carrier syllabics, and it serves as a vital component for preserving and digitally representing Carrier linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1663 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Che |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᙣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᙣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x99 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1663 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001663 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1663 |
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 |