U+14DD "ᓝ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Lwe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᓝ
U+14DD "ᓝ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Lwe is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a specific syllabic character used in the Western Cree writing system to denote the sound "lwe". This script was developed in the 19th century primarily by missionary James Evans to transcribe the Cree languages, and it functions as a distinct syllabic unit rather than a sequence of individual letters. The character is encoded for digital text to preserve and support the linguistic heritage of the Cree people, particularly in contexts like language revitalization and typographic design.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+14DD |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Lwe |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᓝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᓝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x93 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x14DD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000014DD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u14dd |
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 |