U+18F4 "ᣴ" Canadian Syllabics Beaver Dene R Unicode Character

U+18F4 "ᣴ" Canadian Syllabics Beaver Dene R is a glyph used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script, specifically representing the sound "r" in the Beaver Dene language, an Athabaskan language spoken in parts of British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. It was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended block, which encompasses characters for various Indigenous languages of Canada that were not covered in the original syllabics block. This character helps preserve and digitally represent the Beaver Dene written tradition, facilitating accurate text rendering and communication for speakers and linguists working with this endangered language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18F4
Version Added	5.2
Name	Canadian Syllabics Beaver Dene R
Block	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᣴ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᣴ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xA3 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x18F4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000018F4
C/C++/Java Escape	\u18f4

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