U+1671 "ᙱ" Canadian Syllabics Nngi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᙱ
U+1671 "ᙱ" Canadian Syllabics Nngi is a syllabic glyph used in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script, primarily representing the sound "nngi" in languages such as Inuktitut. This character is part of a larger writing system developed in the 19th century for various Indigenous languages across Canada, where it denotes a specific velar nasal sound combined with the vowel "i". It appears in the Unicode Standard as a discrete encoded entity, allowing for digital text representation and processing of this syllabic element without relying on diacritics or composite sequences.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1671 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Nngi |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᙱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᙱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x99 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1671 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001671 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1671 |
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 |