U+1514 "ᔔ" Canadian Syllabics Shoo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᔔ
U+1514 "ᔔ" Canadian Syllabics Shoo is a syllabic character used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script, primarily employed to write the Cree language. It represents the sound "shoo" and is part of the unified writing system developed by missionary James Evans in the 19th century for Indigenous languages across Canada. This character belongs to a larger set of symbols that adapt to specific language orthographies, offering a unique visual representation that combines consonant and vowel sounds into a single glyph, particularly for the Inuktitut and Cree language families.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1514 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Shoo |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᔔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᔔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x94 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1514 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001514 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1514 |
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 |