U+14B9 "ᒹ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Mwaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+14B9 "ᒹ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Mwaa is a syllabic character used in the writing system for the Western Cree language, representing the sound "mwaa". It belongs to the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, which was added to the Unicode standard to support the diverse syllabic scripts used by Indigenous peoples across Canada. This specific glyph combines the basic syllabic shape for the consonant "m" with a diacritic indicating the vowel "waa", reflecting the phonetic structure of the West-Cree dialect. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent the Cree language, aiding in communication, education, and cultural documentation for Cree communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+14B9 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Mwaa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᒹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᒹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x92 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x14B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000014B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u14b9 |
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 |