U+1493 "ᒓ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Cwe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1493 "ᒓ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Cwe is a symbol used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, specifically representing the sound "cwe" in the Western Cree dialect. This character is part of a larger script developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans for Indigenous languages in Canada, and it appears in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block of the Unicode standard. While its usage is tied to the phonetics of Cree, it is less common than core syllabic characters due to regional variations in orthography. The glyph itself consists of a triangular shape rotated to point downward, with a small dot attached to its left side, following the typical geometric patterns of the syllabary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1493 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Cwe |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᒓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᒓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x92 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1493 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001493 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1493 |
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 |