U+1538 "ᔸ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Ywoo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1538 "ᔸ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Ywoo is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block and represents a specific syllabic sound used in the Western Cree language, where it is pronounced like "ywoo" or a similar combination of the consonant "y" and vowel "oo". This character is one of many in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script, which was developed in the 19th century to encode the phonetic structures of various Indigenous languages, including Cree. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent the linguistic heritage of these communities, allowing for accurate text rendering in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1538 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Ywoo |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᔸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᔸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x94 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1538 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001538 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1538 |
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 |