U+1446 "ᑆ" Canadian Syllabics Pwaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᑆ
U+1446 "ᑆ" Canadian Syllabics Pwaa is a character in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a specific syllabic sound used in writing Indigenous languages such as Cree and Ojibwe. This character functions as a single glyph that encodes the consonant-vowel combination of "pwaa," where the shape and orientation of the symbol indicate both the consonant "p" and the vowel "waa" within the syllabic writing system. It is one of many characters in this script that was standardized in Unicode to support digital text and preserve the linguistic heritage of Canadian Aboriginal communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1446 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Pwaa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᑆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᑆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x91 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1446 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001446 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1446 |
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 |