U+18DD "ᣝ" Canadian Syllabics Western W Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᣝ
U+18DD "ᣝ" Canadian Syllabics Western W is a specific glyph used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script, primarily for writing the Woodlands Cree dialect, where it represents a sound akin to the English "w" and is often found in older orthographies or specialized linguistic texts as part of a broader system adapted from the original Cree syllabary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18DD |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics Western W |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᣝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᣝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA3 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x18DD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000018DD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u18dd |
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 |