U+149B "ᒛ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Cwoo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+149B "ᒛ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Cwoo is a character in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, used in the writing system of certain Indigenous languages in Canada, particularly Western Cree. This specific syllabic represents the consonant-vowel combination "cwoo," where "c" denotes a sound similar to the English "ch" or a voiceless postalveolar affricate, and "woo" indicates the vowel quality and rounding. Part of a larger script developed in the 19th century for Cree and Ojibwe languages, it is used in written texts to accurately transcribe phonetic distinctions not easily captured by the Latin alphabet. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and support the digital representation of these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+149B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Cwoo |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᒛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᒛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x92 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x149B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000149B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u149b |
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 |