U+1443 "ᑃ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Pwoo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1443 "ᑃ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Pwoo is a symbol within the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing the syllable "pwoo" in the Western Cree writing system. This character, like others in its set, was developed by missionaries and Indigenous speakers in the 19th century to transcribe the phonetic sounds of the Cree language, and it follows the syllabic structure common to many Algonquian languages. In digital typography, it is encoded to preserve and support the written heritage of the Cree people, allowing for accurate text representation in documents, websites, and software that require Canadian Aboriginal syllabic script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1443 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Pwoo |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᑃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᑃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x91 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1443 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001443 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1443 |
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 |