U+166A "ᙪ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Ttsee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᙪ
U+166A "ᙪ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Ttsee is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, used in the writing systems of Indigenous languages in Canada, specifically the Carrier (Dakelh) language. This character represents the syllable "ttsee," pronounced with a voiceless or aspirated alveolar affricate sound, and it is part of a comprehensive syllabary that the Carrier people adapted from the original Cree syllabics created by missionary James Evans in the 19th century. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally support the linguistic heritage of the Carrier nation, allowing for accurate representation in text and communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+166A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Ttsee |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᙪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᙪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x99 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x166A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000166A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u166a |
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 |