U+1482 "ᒂ" Canadian Syllabics Naskapi Kwaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᒂ
U+1482 "ᒂ" Canadian Syllabics Naskapi Kwaa is a glyph used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script representing the syllable "kwaa" specifically for the Naskapi language, an Algonquian language spoken by the Naskapi people in Quebec and Labrador, Canada. This character is part of a larger syllabic writing system that was adapted from Cree syllables and modified to accommodate the distinct phonological features of Naskapi, such as vowel length and consonant clusters. It appears within the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block of Unicode and serves as an essential tool for preserving and digitally representing the Naskapi language in modern text, including education, documentation, and communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1482 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Naskapi Kwaa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᒂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᒂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x92 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1482 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001482 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1482 |
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 |