U+1533 "ᔳ" Canadian Syllabics Ywii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1533 "ᔳ" Canadian Syllabics Ywii is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing the syllable "ywii" in the Inuktitut writing system used for the Inuit language. The glyph combines a right-pointing arrow-like shape with a small dot to indicate the vowel sound, following the syllabic pattern where a base consonant form is modified by diacritics to denote different vowels. This character is part of a larger script developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans to transcribe Indigenous languages, and it is encoded in Unicode to support digital text representation and preservation of these linguistic traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1533 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Ywii |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᔳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᔳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x94 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1533 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001533 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1533 |
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 |