U+1551 "ᕑ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree R Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1551 "ᕑ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree R is a distinctive glyph representing the syllabic consonant "r" in the Western Cree variety of the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system. This script was originally developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans to transcribe Indigenous languages, and this particular character employs a rotated or altered form of the basic syllabic series to denote the specific phonetic value needed for West-Cree dialects. Its visual structure is part of a larger set that uses orientation and rotation of core shapes to indicate different vowel sounds, making it an essential element for accurate written communication in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1551 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree R |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᕑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᕑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x95 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1551 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001551 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1551 |
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 |