U+1435 "ᐵ" Canadian Syllabics Y-Cree Poo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1435 "ᐵ" Canadian Syllabics Y-Cree Poo is a glyph belonging to the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a syllabic unit in the Cree language under the Y-Cree orthography. It is composed of a wedge shape or dot above rotated elements, signifying the sound "poo" in this writing system, which is used for various Indigenous languages across Canada. This character is part of a larger script developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans to facilitate literacy in Cree and other Algonquian languages, and it continues to be encoded in digital formats to support modern linguistic preservation and communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1435 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Y-Cree Poo |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᐵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᐵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x90 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1435 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001435 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1435 |
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 |