U+1666 "ᙦ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Cha Unicode Character

U+1666 "ᙦ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Cha is a character in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically encoding a syllable from the Carrier language, also known as Dakelh, spoken by the Carrier people in central British Columbia, Canada. It represents a sound that corresponds to a voiceless velar fricative followed by an 'a' vowel, functioning as a distinct syllabic unit in the written form of the language. This character is part of a broader writing system developed for Indigenous languages, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and support digital communication for Carrier communities.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1666
Version Added	3.0
Name	Canadian Syllabics Carrier Cha
Block	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᙦ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᙦ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x99 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1666
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001666
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1666

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