U+1532 "ᔲ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Ywi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1532 "ᔲ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Ywi is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a specific sound in the Western Cree writing system. This character denotes the syllable "ywi," which is used in the transcription of the Cree language, particularly in the dialects spoken in western Canada. It belongs to a series of syllabic characters that were historically developed by Christian missionaries to aid in literacy and translation of religious texts, and it continues to be employed in modern digital contexts for preserving and transmitting Indigenous languages through electronic text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1532 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Ywi |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᔲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᔲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x94 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1532 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001532 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1532 |
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 |