U+1523 "ᔣ" Canadian Syllabics Shwaa Unicode Character

U+1523 "ᔣ" Canadian Syllabics Shwaa is a symbol from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing the sound "shwaa" in certain Indigenous languages, particularly those of the Algonquian family such as Cree. This character is a part of the writing system developed by missionary James Evans in the 19th century for transcription of Ojibwe and Cree, and it follows the syllabic pattern where the shape indicates the consonant while the orientation or rotation of the character denotes the vowel. In the case of "ᔣ", the form includes a specific left facing orientation to indicate the "shwaa" syllable, which is used in linguistic contexts to accurately represent spoken language in written form.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1523
Version Added	3.0
Name	Canadian Syllabics Shwaa
Block	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᔣ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᔣ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x94 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1523
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001523
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1523

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