U+18DE "ᣞ" Canadian Syllabics Final Small Ring Unicode Character

U+18DE "ᣞ" Canadian Syllabics Final Small Ring is a diacritic mark used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, primarily to indicate a final consonant or a modification of the preceding syllabic character's sound. It appears as a small ring placed after a syllable, often representing a glottal stop or a reduced vowel quality in languages like Cree and Ojibwe. This character is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block and serves a distinct phonetic role, differentiating it from other combining rings or diacritics by its specific use as a final element in syllabic spelling conventions.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᣞ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᣞ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xA3 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x18DE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000018DE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u18de

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