U+18BF "ᢿ" Canadian Syllabics Say Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᢿ
U+18BF "ᢿ" Canadian Syllabics Say is a character in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, used in the writing system for certain Indigenous languages of Canada, particularly within the Algonquian language family. It represents a specific syllable sound, "say," combining a consonant and a vowel in a visually cohesive glyph, and is one of many such syllabic characters standardized to support the preservation and digital representation of Cree, Ojibwe, and related languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18BF |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Say |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᢿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᢿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA2 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x18BF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000018BF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u18bf |
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 |