U+143F "ᐿ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Pwii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+143F "ᐿ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Pwii is a symbol from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a specific syllable sound in the Western Cree writing system, where the consonant "p" is combined with the vowel "wii" to form a single glyph. This character is part of a broader script invented in the 19th century by missionary James Evans for Indigenous languages, and it is used primarily in the Plains Cree dialect to denote the distinctive phonetic combination that is essential for accurate written communication in that language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+143F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Pwii |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᐿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᐿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x90 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x143F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000143F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u143f |
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 |