U+149A "ᒚ" Canadian Syllabics Cwoo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+149A "ᒚ" Canadian Syllabics Cwoo is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block used primarily in writing the Cree language and other Indigenous languages of Canada. This character represents a syllabic unit pronounced as "cwoo" or "tchwoo," and its form is derived from a combination of a consonant symbol and a vowel indicator, a common feature of the syllabic script system. It appears in legacy and modern digital texts to preserve linguistic authenticity, and its encoding ensures consistent representation across different devices and platforms for language documentation and communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+149A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Cwoo |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᒚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᒚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x92 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x149A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000149A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u149a |
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 |