U+14CB "ᓋ" Canadian Syllabics Nwa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+14CB "ᓋ" Canadian Syllabics Nwa is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, which is used to write several Indigenous languages of Canada, such as Inuktitut and Cree. This specific syllabic represents the sound "nwa", a combination of the consonant "n" with the vowel-like element "wa", and is constructed as a rotated or flipped version of the character for "na". It belongs to a writing system developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans to facilitate literacy among Indigenous communities, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that these languages can be used in modern digital text, email, and web pages.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᓋ
HTML Hex Encoding ᓋ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x93 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x14CB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000014CB
C/C++/Java Escape \u14cb

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