U+18BC "ᢼ" Canadian Syllabics Nay Unicode Character

U+18BC "ᢼ" Canadian Syllabics Nay is a specific glyph within the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, used to represent a syllabic sound in certain Indigenous languages of Canada, particularly those from the Algonquian and Athabaskan language families such as Cree and Ojibwe. It denotes the syllable "nay" (or a similar nasalized sound depending on the orthographic conventions of the specific language), and is part of a writing system developed by missionary James Evans in the 19th century. This character is encoded for digital text to preserve and support the accurate representation of Indigenous languages in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18BC
Version Added	5.2
Name	Canadian Syllabics Nay
Block	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᢼ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᢼ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xA2 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x18BC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000018BC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u18bc

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