U+1675 "ᙵ" Canadian Syllabics Nnga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᙵ
U+1675 "ᙵ" Canadian Syllabics Nnga is a letter from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a syllabic sound in several Indigenous languages of Canada, such as Inuktitut and Cree. This character specifically denotes the syllable "nnga," where the double "n" indicates a velar nasal sound, distinct from the single "n" versions in the script. It forms part of a writing system developed in the 19th century by missionaries to transcribe the phonetics of various Algonquian and Eskimo-Aleut languages, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally support these languages for modern communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1675 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Nnga |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᙵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᙵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x99 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1675 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001675 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1675 |
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 |