U+1500 "ᔀ" Canadian Syllabics Swa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1500 "ᔀ" Canadian Syllabics Swa is a character from the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically representing the syllabic glyph for the sound "swa" in certain Indigenous languages of Canada, such as Cree and Ojibwe. It was added to the Unicode standard as part of a unified script designed to preserve and support these languages in digital text. Visually, the character appears as a compact, rotated or reflected variant of the "wa" series, often featuring a distinctive angular shape typical of this writing system. This character is used in modern digital communication and language preservation efforts, allowing for accurate electronic representation of syllables that are fundamental to these linguistic traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1500 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Swa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᔀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᔀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x94 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1500 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001500 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1500 |
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 |