U+14F6 "ᓶ" Canadian Syllabics Swe Unicode Character

U+14F6 "ᓶ" Canadian Syllabics Swe is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, used primarily in writing the Cree language and occasionally other Indigenous languages of Canada. It represents the syllable sound "swe," which is a combination of the consonant "s" and the vowel "we." This character is part of a syllabary system developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans to transcribe Indigenous languages, and it holds cultural and linguistic significance for communities that maintain these writing systems today.

General Properties

Code Point	U+14F6
Version Added	3.0
Name	Canadian Syllabics Swe
Block	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᓶ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᓶ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x93 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x14F6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000014F6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u14f6

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