U+147F "ᑿ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Kwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᑿ
U+147F "ᑿ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Kwa is a single glyph used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system to represent the syllable "kwa" in the western dialect of the Cree language. It belongs to the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block within Unicode, which was added to support the diverse indigenous languages of Canada that use this script. The character is formed as a variation of the basic "ka" sign, with a small diacritic or tail indicating the rounded "w" sound, allowing for precise phonetic representation in written Cree. This system was originally developed by missionary James Evans in the 19th century and remains vital for preserving and teaching Cree literacy today.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+147F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Kwa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᑿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᑿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x91 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x147F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000147F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u147f |
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 |