U+18ED "ᣭ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Gwu Unicode Character

U+18ED "ᣭ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Gwu is a character used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, specifically representing the Carrier language's syllable "gwu." It is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, which was added to the Unicode standard to support the diverse Indigenous writing systems of Canada. This glyph is used in the Carrier language, spoken by the Dakelh people in British Columbia, to denote a voiced velar consonant combined with a rounded vowel sound. Preserving such characters helps maintain the linguistic and cultural heritage of Indigenous communities in digital communication and documentation.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᣭ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᣭ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xA3 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x18ED
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000018ED
C/C++/Java Escape	\u18ed

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