U+152F "ᔯ" Canadian Syllabics Ywe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+152F "ᔯ" Canadian Syllabics Ywe is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a specific phonetic syllable in various Indigenous languages of Canada, particularly those of the Algonquian language family such as Cree and Ojibwe. This glyph is formed by rotating the standard character for "Ye," and it denotes the sound /jwe/ (or a similar combination of a semivowel and vowel). It is used in syllabic writing systems that employ geometric shapes oriented in different directions to indicate vowel variations, with "Ywe" being a distinct but less common combination found in certain lexical contexts and older orthographic traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+152F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Ywe |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᔯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᔯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x94 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x152F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000152F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u152f |
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 |