U+15D9 "ᗙ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Hwee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᗙ
U+15D9 "ᗙ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Hwee is a letter used in the writing system for the Carrier language (also known as Dakelh) spoken by the Carrier people in British Columbia, Canada. It represents a specific syllable sound in the Carrier syllabary, which was originally developed by missionaries in the 19th century to transcribe Indigenous languages. This character is part of a larger set of Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics that is encoded in the Unicode standard to support digital text representation for various First Nations languages. Visually, "ᗙ" appears as a distinct glyph with a shape that combines a circle and a hooked or angled stroke, corresponding to phonetic values in the Carrier linguistic system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+15D9 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Hwee |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᗙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᗙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x97 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x15D9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000015D9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u15d9 |
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 |