U+1544 "ᕄ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Le Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1544 "ᕄ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Le is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, used in writing the James Bay Cree dialect of the Cree language, specifically representing the syllable sound "le." It is an uncommon letter, distinct from the more frequent "ri" or "li" syllables, and reflects the unique phonetic inventory of the Western Cree orthography. This character, like others in its block, was added to Unicode to support Indigenous Canadian languages for digital text and preservation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1544 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Le |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᕄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᕄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x95 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1544 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001544 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1544 |
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 |