U+145C "ᑜ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Twii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᑜ
U+145C "ᑜ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Twii is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically used in the Cree language as part of the Western Cree syllabary. It represents the syllable "twii," which is a distinct sound in that linguistic system, and its name reflects the specific dialect and pronunciation it encodes. This character is one of many created to support written Indigenous languages in Canada, enabling accurate representation of unique phonetic elements in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+145C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Twii |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᑜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᑜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x91 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x145C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000145C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u145c |
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 |