U+167D "ᙽ" Canadian Syllabics Woods-Cree Thwaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+167D "ᙽ" Canadian Syllabics Woods-Cree Thwaa is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, used to represent a specific syllabic sound in the Woods Cree dialect of the Cree language. It is composed of a vertical stem with a small triangular or chevron-like mark attached to its upper right side, which distinguishes it from related characters denoting other consonant-vowel combinations. This symbol, like others in the syllabary, was developed by missionaries and Indigenous communities for writing Cree languages, and it remains part of modern digital text encoding to support the accurate digital representation of Indigenous languages in Canada.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+167D |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Woods-Cree Thwaa |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᙽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᙽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x99 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x167D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000167D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u167d |
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 |