U+151A "ᔚ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Shwi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᔚ
U+151A "ᔚ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Shwi is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically used in the Western Cree writing system to represent the syllable sound "shwi" (a voiceless postalveolar fricative followed by the vowel "i"). This character is part of a greater script developed by missionary James Evans in the 19th century for Indigenous languages in Canada, and it appears in syllabic orthographies where consonant shapes are rotated or modified to indicate different vowel values. In West-Cree, "ᔚ" corresponds to the phonetic transcription /ʃwi/, and it is employed in written texts to preserve the linguistic heritage of Cree communities across regions such as Alberta and Saskatchewan.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+151A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Shwi |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᔚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᔚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x94 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x151A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000151A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u151a |
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 |