U+143A "ᐺ" Canadian Syllabics Pwe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+143A "ᐺ" Canadian Syllabics Pwe is a character within the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically used in the Cree language to represent the syllable "pwe". It is part of a writing system developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans for Indigenous languages in Canada, where characters are formed by rotating and reflecting basic shapes to represent different vowel combinations. This character is a rotated variant of the base syllabic for "pe" (ᐯ), altered to denote the "w" sound before the vowel, and its use preserves the phonetic structure of Cree and supports cultural and linguistic revitalization efforts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+143A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Pwe |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᐺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᐺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x90 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x143A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000143A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u143a |
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 |