U+15B7 "ᖷ" Canadian Syllabics Blackfoot Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+15B7 "ᖷ" Canadian Syllabics Blackfoot Wa is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, a script designed to represent several Indigenous languages of Canada. This specific character is used in the Blackfoot language, where it denotes a syllabic sound similar to "wa." It was encoded in Unicode to support the digital preservation and accurate representation of Blackfoot orthography, allowing speakers and linguists to type and display this unique character in electronic texts alongside other scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+15B7 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Blackfoot Wa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᖷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᖷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x96 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x15B7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000015B7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u15b7 |
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 |