U+1520 "ᔠ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Shwoo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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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 |