U+1542 Canadian Syllabics Re
U+1542 was added in Unicode version 3.0 in 1999. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Canadian Aboriginal script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+1542 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Canadian syllabic writing, or simply syllabics, is a family of writing systems used in a number of indigenous Canadian languages of the Algonquian, Inuit, and (formerly) Athabaskan language families. These languages had no formal writing system previously. They are valued for their distinctiveness from the Latin script and for the ease with which literacy can be achieved. For instance, by the late 19th century the Cree had achieved what may have been one of the highest rates of literacy in the world. Syllabics are an abugida, where glyphs represent consonant–vowel pairs, determined by the rotation of the glyphs. They derive from the work of linguist and missionary James Evans.
Canadian syllabics are currently used to write all of the Cree languages from including Eastern Cree, Plains Cree, Swampy Cree, Woods Cree, and Naskapi. They are also used to write Inuktitut in the Canadian Arctic; there they are co-official with the Latin script in the territory of Nunavut. They are used regionally for the other large Canadian Algonquian language, Ojibwe, as well as for Blackfoot. Among the Athabaskan languages further to the west, syllabics have been used at one point or another to write Dakelh (Carrier), Chipewyan, Slavey, Tłı̨chǫ (Dogrib), and Dane-zaa (Beaver). Syllabics have occasionally been used in the United States by communities that straddle the border.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 5442 |
UTF-8 | E1 95 82 |
UTF-16 | 15 42 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 15 42 |
URL-Quoted | %E1%95%82 |
HTML hex reference | ᕂ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | á•‚ |
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 34 8C 36 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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CANADIAN SYLLABICS RE | |
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Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics | |
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