U+14E2 "ᓢ" Canadian Syllabics Lwo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᓢ
U+14E2 "ᓢ" Canadian Syllabics Lwo is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically used in the writing systems of Indigenous languages like Cree and Ojibwe to represent a syllable sound. This character corresponds to the consonantic element "l" combined with the vowel "wo," forming a single glyph that streamlines text by encapsulating a full syllable in one symbol. Its design follows the systematic structure of the syllabary, where the orientation and shape of the character indicate the specific vowel attached to the consonant, aiding in the phonetic clarity and cultural preservation of these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+14E2 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Lwo |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᓢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᓢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x93 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x14E2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000014E2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u14e2 |
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 |