U+140E "ᐎ" Canadian Syllabics Wi Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+140E "ᐎ" Canadian Syllabics Wi is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a syllable in the writing systems used for several Indigenous languages of Canada, most notably Inuktitut and Cree. This specific character is a right-pointing V-shaped form oriented upward, which typically denotes the vowel sound "i" combined with the consonant "w" in a Cree syllabics context, where a single character encodes a full syllable. Designed as a distinct typographic element to support the phonetic structure of these languages, "ᐎ" preserves the script's geometric and directional conventions that reflect vowel modifications, such as rotation or orientation changes, distinguishing it from other characters like "ᐅ" for "o" or "ᐊ" for "a".

General Properties

Code Point U+140E
Version Added 3.0
Name Canadian Syllabics Wi
Block Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᐎ
HTML Hex Encoding ᐎ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x90 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x140E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000140E
C/C++/Java Escape \u140e

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