U+149C "ᒜ" Canadian Syllabics Cwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᒜ
U+149C "ᒜ" Canadian Syllabics Cwa is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, a script used primarily for writing several Indigenous languages of Canada, including Cree, Ojibwe, and Inuktitut. This specific glyph represents the syllable "cwa," with "c" denoting a voiceless palatal stop sound (similar to the English "ch" in "cheese") combined with the vowel "wa." It is constructed following the geometric principles of the syllabary, which uses rotation and orientation to indicate different vowel sounds, and it contributes to the phonetic precision required for accurately representing the languages in written form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+149C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Cwa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᒜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᒜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x92 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x149C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000149C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u149c |
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 |