U+155B "ᕛ" Canadian Syllabics Fwaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᕛ
U+155B "ᕛ" Canadian Syllabics Fwaa is a glyph in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a syllable sound used in certain Indigenous languages of Canada, particularly in Inuktitut. This character is formed from a distinctive curved shape that resembles a left-to-right arch with a small tail, and it corresponds closely to the phonetic value "fwaa" or a similar labial-velar fricative in languages that utilize the script. It is part of a broader syllabic writing system historically developed by missionaries and adapted by communities such as the Inuit, where each character conveys a full consonant-vowel combination rather than individual letters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+155B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Fwaa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᕛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᕛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x95 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x155B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000155B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u155b |
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 |