U+15DB "ᗛ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Hwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᗛ
U+15DB "ᗛ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Hwa is a letter from the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script, specifically used in the Carrier language of British Columbia, Canada. This character represents the sound equivalent to "hwa" and is part of a writing system developed in the 19th century for Indigenous languages, adapted from the syllabic scripts created by missionary James Evans. It belongs to the Unicode block for Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, encoded to preserve and support digital representation of the Carrier language and other related First Nations languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+15DB |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Carrier Hwa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᗛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᗛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x97 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x15DB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000015DB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u15db |
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 |