U+14E5 "ᓥ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Lwoo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+14E5 "ᓥ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Lwoo is a glyph used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, specifically representing the syllable "lwoo" in the Western Cree language. This character is part of a script devised in the 19th century by missionary James Evans to transcribe Indigenous languages, and it carries a unique cultural and linguistic significance for Cree communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+14E5 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Lwoo |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᓥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᓥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x93 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x14E5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000014E5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u14e5 |
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 |