U+14F3 "ᓳ" Canadian Syllabics Y-Cree Soo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+14F3 "ᓳ" Canadian Syllabics Y-Cree Soo is a character used in the Canadian Aboriginal syllabics writing system, specifically for the Cree language and related dialects, where it represents the syllable sound "so" or "soo" in certain orthographic conventions. It is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, which encodes a range of characters designed to support Indigenous languages of Canada, with this particular glyph derived from a rotated or modified form of the base "Y"-series syllabic. The character is used in written contexts to transcribe the phonetic value of the syllable, often found in educational materials, cultural texts, and digital documents aimed at preserving and transmitting Cree language heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+14F3 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Y-Cree Soo |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᓳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᓳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x93 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x14F3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000014F3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u14f3 |
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 |