U+15D4 "ᗔ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Wi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+15D4 "ᗔ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Wi is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a specific syllable in the Carrier language, an Athabaskan language spoken by the Carrier people in British Columbia, Canada. This character corresponds to the sound "wi" and was adopted into the Unicode standard in version 3.0, released in 1999, to support the writing systems of Indigenous Canadian languages. Its use helps preserve and digitize the linguistic heritage of the Carrier communities, enabling text representation in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+15D4 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Wi |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᗔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᗔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x97 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x15D4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000015D4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u15d4 |
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 |