U+18EE "ᣮ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Dene Gee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+18EE "ᣮ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Dene Gee is a specific grapheme within the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a syllabic unit used in the Carrier language, which is an Athabaskan language spoken primarily in British Columbia, Canada. This particular character corresponds to the sound "gee" and is part of a writing system developed by missionaries and adapted by Indigenous communities to transcribe their languages using a modified set of symbols. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this endangered language tradition, enabling modern communication, documentation, and revitalization efforts for Carrier speakers and scholars.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18EE |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Dene Gee |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᣮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᣮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA3 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x18EE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000018EE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u18ee |
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 |