U+167F "ᙿ" Canadian Syllabics Blackfoot W Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᙿ
U+167F "ᙿ" Canadian Syllabics Blackfoot W is a single glyph used in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block to represent the sound "w" in the Blackfoot language. This character is part of a unique writing system developed for Indigenous languages in Canada, though it is specifically tied to the Blackfoot orthography. While the Blackfoot writing system traditionally uses a Latin based alphabet more often, ᙿ appears in older syllabic texts and modern digital renderings to preserve cultural heritage and facilitate accurate electronic communication of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+167F |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Blackfoot W |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᙿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᙿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x99 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x167F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000167F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u167f |
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 |