U+14CA "ᓊ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Nwe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+14CA "ᓊ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Nwe is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, used primarily in the Western Cree language to represent the syllable "nwe." This syllabic script, developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans, is designed for writing Indigenous languages of Canada and helps preserve linguistic and cultural heritage. The character itself consists of a triangular shape oriented to the left with an attached horizontal line, visually distinguishing it from other syllabics like "nwa" or "nwi" through its specific orientation and markings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+14CA |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Nwe |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᓊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᓊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x93 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x14CA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000014CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u14ca |
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 |