U+15B4 "ᖴ" Canadian Syllabics Blackfoot We Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᖴ
U+15B4 "ᖴ" Canadian Syllabics Blackfoot We is a letter from the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically representing the syllabic sound "we" in the Blackfoot language. It is used in written Blackfoot, an Algonquian language spoken by the Blackfoot Confederacy in parts of Canada and the United States. This character is part of a larger script system developed by missionaries in the 19th century to transcribe Indigenous languages, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately preserve and represent this cultural and linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+15B4 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Blackfoot We |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᖴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᖴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x96 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x15B4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000015B4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u15b4 |
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 |