U+14FA "ᓺ" Canadian Syllabics Swii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+14FA "ᓺ" Canadian Syllabics Swii is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically representing a syllabic unit in the Inuktitut and Cree writing systems, where it encodes the sound "swii" (or a similar variant depending on the specific orthography). This character is part of a larger script developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans to transcribe indigenous languages of Canada, and it is used in modern digital text to preserve and facilitate the written communication of these languages. The glyph itself is designed as a rotated or mirrored form of the base syllabic shape, following the systematic pattern of the script where orientation and diacritics indicate vowel values, allowing for efficient representation of spoken syllables.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ᓺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ᓺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE1 0x93 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x14FA |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000014FA |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u14fa |
Unicode Properties