U+18D2 "ᣒ" Canadian Syllabics Rwoo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+18D2 "ᣒ" Canadian Syllabics Rwoo is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, designed to represent a specific syllable in certain Indigenous languages of Canada, such as Cree. This character encodes the sound "rwoo," which combines a voiced alveolar trill or approximate "r" sound with a vowel "oo," and it is primarily used in transliterations or adapted orthographies where the Roman letter "r" is integrated into the syllabic writing system. Although less common than core syllables, it reflects the flexibility of the script to accommodate loanwords or dialectal variations within the broader Canadian Aboriginal writing tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18D2 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Rwoo |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᣒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᣒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA3 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x18D2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000018D2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u18d2 |
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 |