U+18B6 "ᢶ" Canadian Syllabics Pwoy Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+18B6 "ᢶ" Canadian Syllabics Pwoy is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a specific phonetic syllable in certain Indigenous languages of Canada. This character is part of a writing system developed in the 19th century for languages such as Cree, Ojibwe, and Inuktitut, where it denotes a sound that can be transcribed as "pwoy" within the syllabic script's structure. Unlike some other syllabics that combine a consonant and a vowel in a single character, U+18B6 is used in a supplementary range to expand the system's capacity for additional syllables found in some dialects. As a rarely used character in modern digital contexts, it highlights the ongoing effort to preserve and encode the linguistic diversity of Canada's Indigenous communities in global text standards.

General Properties

Code Point U+18B6
Version Added 5.2
Name Canadian Syllabics Pwoy
Block Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᢶ
HTML Hex Encoding ᢶ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA2 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding 0x18B6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000018B6
C/C++/Java Escape \u18b6

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