U+1461 "ᑡ" Canadian Syllabics Twa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᑡ
U+1461 "ᑡ" Canadian Syllabics Twa is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing the syllabic sound "twa" used in certain Indigenous writing systems, particularly Inuktitut and Cree languages. This character is constructed from an orientation of the basic syllabic shape for the consonant series, with a specific glyphic form that indicates the rounded "wa" vowel ending. It is part of a larger set of syllabic characters developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans, designed to represent the phonetic structures of various Algonquian and Eskimo-Aleut languages, and it remains in modern usage for digital text encoding and language preservation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1461 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Twa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᑡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᑡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x91 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1461 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001461 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1461 |
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 |