U+147D "ᑽ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Kwoo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+147D "ᑽ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Kwoo is a letter used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, specifically for the Western Cree language, where it represents a syllable pronounced with the "k" consonant and the "woo" vowel sound. It belongs to the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block of the Unicode standard, which encodes the diverse scripts developed for Indigenous languages in Canada. This character appears in historical and modern texts for written Cree, helping to preserve and transmit the language's unique phonetic structure. Its design is composed of a basic geometric shape, as is typical for such syllabics, with a rotated orientation to indicate the specific vowel.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+147D |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Kwoo |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᑽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᑽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x91 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x147D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000147D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u147d |
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 |