U+14DE "ᓞ" Canadian Syllabics Lwi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+14DE "ᓞ" Canadian Syllabics Lwi is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing the syllable "lwi" in the Inuktitut writing system, particularly used for the Inuktitut language spoken across northern Canada. This character is constructed from the basic syllabic form for "l" combined with a dot or diacritic that indicates the vowel sound "wi", following the standard pattern of the script where consonants are modified to reflect different vowels. It is encoded in Unicode to support digital text representation and preservation of Indigenous languages, enabling accurate transcription and communication in modern computing environments for speakers of these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+14DE |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Lwi |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᓞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᓞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x93 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x14DE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000014DE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u14de |
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 |