U+155C "ᕜ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Fwaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᕜ
U+155C "ᕜ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Fwaa is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, used primarily in the Western Cree writing system to represent the phonetic syllable "fwaa." This character belongs to a script developed for Indigenous languages in Canada, specifically adapted to transcribe sounds not found in English or French, such as the labial fricative "f" combined with a long "waa" vowel. It appears in historical and linguistic texts, as well as modern digital representations of the Nêhiyawêwin (Cree) language, helping preserve and encode the distinctive voice of West-Cree dialects in written form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+155C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Fwaa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᕜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᕜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x95 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x155C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000155C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u155c |
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 |