U+18B4 "ᢴ" Canadian Syllabics Poy Unicode Character

U+18B4 "ᢴ" Canadian Syllabics Poy is a rarely used glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, which encodes the revised orthography of the James Bay Cree dialect. Specifically representing the syllable "poy" (or "pwei"), this character is part of a writing system developed for Indigenous languages in Canada, notably Cree dialects where it denotes a consonant-vowel combination involving the sound "p" followed by a long, low "oy" diphthong. Its usage is primarily confined to historical or specialized linguistic texts, as modern standard Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics often employ alternative representations, making this character an obscure but valuable component for accurate representation of certain linguistic records.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18B4
Version Added	5.2
Name	Canadian Syllabics Poy
Block	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᢴ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᢴ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xA2 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x18B4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000018B4
C/C++/Java Escape	\u18b4

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