U+1481 "ᒁ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Kwaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᒁ
U+1481 "ᒁ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Kwaa is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, used primarily in the Western Cree language to represent the syllabic sound "kwaa." It is part of a writing system developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans for Indigenous languages, where distinct characters denote consonant-vowel combinations. This specific character is formed by rotating or modifying the base character for "kwa" to indicate a long vowel, making it essential for accurately spelling Cree words and preserving the phonetic structure of the language in written form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1481 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Kwaa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᒁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᒁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x92 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1481 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001481 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1481 |
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 |