U+18D9 "ᣙ" Canadian Syllabics Ojibway N Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+18D9 "ᣙ" Canadian Syllabics Ojibway N is a specific glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a syllabic character used in the Ojibway language to denote the sound "n". It is part of a writing system developed primarily by Christian missionaries in the 19th century to transcribe various Indigenous languages across Canada, where syllabics differ from alphabetic scripts by representing whole syllables rather than individual letters. This character is encoded in Unicode to support digital preservation and accurate text representation for the Ojibway language, though its usage is relatively rare and often confined to specialized linguistic, educational, or cultural contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18D9 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Ojibway N |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᣙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᣙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA3 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x18D9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000018D9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u18d9 |
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 |