U+151C "ᔜ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Shwii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᔜ
U+151C "ᔜ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Shwii is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a syllabic character used in the writing system for the Western Cree dialect. This specific glyph encodes the sound value "shwii" and is employed in languages such as Swampy Cree and Woods Cree to denote a consonant-vowel combination. It contributes to preserving Indigenous linguistic heritage by enabling digital representation of a traditionally oral and handwritten script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+151C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Shwii |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᔜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᔜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x94 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x151C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000151C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u151c |
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 |