U+158D "ᖍ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+158D "ᖍ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Ra is a letter used in the writing system for the Western Cree language, part of the Algonquian language family. It represents the syllable sound "ra" and belongs to the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, which was designed to transcribe various Indigenous languages across Canada. This script was originally developed by missionary James Evans in the 19th century and uses unique geometric shapes to denote syllables, with U+158D specifically being formed by a distinct combination of curves and lines that differentiate it from other syllabic characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+158D |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Ra |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᖍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᖍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x96 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x158D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000158D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u158d |
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 |