U+14B8 "ᒸ" Canadian Syllabics Mwaa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+14B8 "ᒸ" Canadian Syllabics Mwaa is a character used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, which was developed primarily for languages such as Cree, Ojibwe, and Inuktitut. This specific character represents the syllabic sound "mwaa," forming part of a larger set of characters that denote consonant-vowel combinations in a featural script where the shape of the symbol indicates the consonant and its orientation or rotation indicates the vowel. The Canadian Syllabics block was added to the Unicode Standard in version 3.0 to support the digital representation of indigenous languages of Canada, helping to preserve and promote their written forms in modern technology.

General Properties

Code Point U+14B8
Version Added 3.0
Name Canadian Syllabics Mwaa
Block Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᒸ
HTML Hex Encoding ᒸ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x92 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x14B8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000014B8
C/C++/Java Escape \u14b8

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