U+145A "ᑚ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Twi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᑚ
U+145A "ᑚ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Twi is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically representing the syllabic sound "twi" in the Western Cree dialect of the Algonquian language family. Its design consists of a geometric shape, typically a rotated or mirrored form of a basic syllabic character, which distinguishes the "twi" sound from other related syllables in the writing system. This character is part of a script developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans for writing Cree and other Indigenous languages, and it plays a critical role in preserving and transmitting West-Cree linguistic heritage through written communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+145A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Twi |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᑚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᑚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x91 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x145A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000145A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u145a |
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 |