U+14B8 "ᒸ" Canadian Syllabics Mwaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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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 |