U+1670 "ᙰ" Canadian Syllabics Ngai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᙰ
U+1670 "ᙰ" Canadian Syllabics Ngai is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, which was added to the Unicode standard in version 3.0 released in 1999. This specific character represents the syllable "ngai" and is used in writing the Inuktitut language, one of the principal Inuit languages spoken across the Arctic regions of Canada. The Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script was originally developed in the 1840s by missionary James Evans for the Cree language, and later adapted for Inuktitut, where the character "ᙰ" helps represent distinct phonetic sounds that differ from those in other syllabary systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1670 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Ngai |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᙰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᙰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x99 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1670 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001670 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1670 |
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 |