U+14CB "ᓋ" Canadian Syllabics Nwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᓋ
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 |