U+153E CANADIAN SYLLABICS Y

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Decimal / Nº
5438
General Category
Block
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+153E, officially named CANADIAN SYLLABICS Y, was introduced in Unicode version 3.0. It is part of the UCAS block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Letter, this character typically falls under the Cans script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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5438 Copied!
UTF-8 E1 94 BE Copied!
UTF-16 15 3E Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 15 3E Copied!
URL-Quoted %E1%94%BE Copied!
HTML hex reference ᔾ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'153E' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u153E Copied!
C and C++ \u153e Copied!
C# \u153e Copied!
CSS \00153E Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(5438) Copied!
Go \u153e Copied!
JavaScript \u153E Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{153e} Copied!
JSON \u153E Copied!
Java \u153E Copied!
Lua \u{153E} Copied!
Matlab char(5438) Copied!
Perl \x{153E} Copied!
PHP \u{153e} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\153E' Copied!
PowerShell `u{153E} Copied!
Python \u153e Copied!
Ruby \u{153e} Copied!
Rust \u{153e} Copied!