U+14A8 "ᒨ" Canadian Syllabics Moo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᒨ
U+14A8 "ᒨ" Canadian Syllabics Moo is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing the syllable "moo" in Inuktitut, Cree, and other indigenous languages of Canada. This specific grapheme is formed by a straight vertical line that curves left at the top, combined with a right-facing triangular tail at the bottom, and denotes the sound associated with the consonant "m" followed by the long vowel "oo". It is part of a writing system developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans for transcribing syllabic sounds, and it remains in contemporary digital use for typing and preserving these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+14A8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Moo |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᒨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᒨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x92 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x14A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000014A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u14a8 |
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 |