U+14FB "ᓻ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Swii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+14FB "ᓻ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Swii is a glyph within the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, used to represent a specific syllable in the Western Cree writing system. This character typically denotes the sound "swii," combining the consonant-like onset with a vowel element, and is part of a larger syllabary developed for Indigenous languages in Canada. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent the rich linguistic heritage of the Cree people, enabling accurate text processing, typing, and online communication in West-Cree contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+14FB |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Swii |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᓻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᓻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x93 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x14FB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000014FB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u14fb |
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 |