U+161A "ᘚ" Canadian Syllabics Sayisi Ji Unicode Character

U+161A "ᘚ" Canadian Syllabics Sayisi Ji is a symbol from the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script, specifically representing a syllable used in the Sayisi dialect of the Dene language, also known as Chipewyan. This character, shaped like a simple vertical line with a small horizontal tick at the top right, corresponds to the sound commonly transcribed as "ji" in linguistic notation. It forms part of a larger writing system developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans and later adapted for various Indigenous languages across Canada, serving as a vital tool for preserving and transmitting the Sayisi variant of Dene oral and written traditions.