U+1520 "ᔠ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Shwoo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1520 "ᔠ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Shwoo is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a specific syllable used in the Western Cree writing system. This character is composed of a rotated form of the basic "sh" series, with an orientation indicating the vowel "woo" or a related back vowel sound, as defined in the standard orthography for certain Cree dialects. It is one of many such syllabic characters that encode consonant-vowel combinations, allowing for the phonetic representation of the West-Cree language in written form.

General Properties

Code Point U+1520
Version Added 3.0
Name Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Shwoo
Block Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᔠ
HTML Hex Encoding ᔠ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x94 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1520
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001520
C/C++/Java Escape \u1520

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