CANADIAN SYLLABICS HYPHEN character

Name:

CANADIAN SYLLABICS HYPHEN

Hex Number:

U+1400

Decimal Number:

5120

HTML Entity (Dec):

᐀

HTML Entity (Hex):

᐀

Category:

Pd (Dash Punctuation)

Bidi Class:

ON (Other Neutrals)

Mirrored:

Combining Class:

Unicode Block:

Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

Plane:

Plane Code:

BMP

Plane Description:

Basic Multilingual Plane

Plane Range:

0000-FFFF

Character Preview:

᐀

CANADIAN SYLLABICS HYPHEN is a dash or hyphen punctuation mark from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of CANADIAN SYLLABICS HYPHEN is Other Neutrals (Neutral). It belongs to the neutrals. Whitespace and punctuation, which take on the directionality of the surrounding text..

The Other Neutral (ON) bidi class includes characters that do not have a strong directional preference and can appear in any text context without influencing the overall directionality. These characters include punctuation marks, symbols, and various other text elements that do not fit into more specific bidi classes.

Dash Punctuation (Pd) refers to characters that serve as dashes in text. Dashes are used to indicate ranges, interruptions, or separations in text. Examples include the hyphen (-), en dash (–), and em dash (—).

This character belongs to the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block. Canadian Aboriginal syllabic writing, or simply syllabics, is a family of abugidas (consonant-based alphabets) used to write a number of Aboriginal Canadian languages of the Algonquian, Inuit, and (formerly) Athabaskan language families. These syllabics are stored in two different unicode blocks..

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