U+18DB "ᣛ" Canadian Syllabics Ojibway Sh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᣛ
U+18DB "ᣛ" Canadian Syllabics Ojibway Sh is a letter in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically representing the sound "sh" in the Ojibway language. It belongs to a family of characters created by missionary James Evans in the 19th century for writing Indigenous languages across Canada, though its precise usage in historical and modern Ojibway orthography can vary among communities. This syllabic character, along with others, helps preserve and digitally represent the rich linguistic heritage of the Ojibway people, enabling accurate text rendering in modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18DB |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Ojibway Sh |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᣛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᣛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA3 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x18DB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000018DB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u18db |
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 |