U+1518 "ᔘ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Shwe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1518 "ᔘ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Shwe is a glyph used in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block to represent a specific syllable sound in the Western Cree language, one of the Algonquian languages spoken by Indigenous peoples in parts of Canada. It corresponds to the consonant sound "sh" combined with the vowel "we," forming the syllable "shwe" as part of a syllabic writing system developed for Cree and other related languages. This character is encoded for digital text to support the accurate representation and preservation of Indigenous scripts, allowing for proper rendering in modern computing environments and facilitating language learning and cultural documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1518 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Shwe |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᔘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᔘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x94 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1518 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001518 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1518 |
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 |