U+18F2 "ᣲ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Jwa Unicode Character

U+18F2 "ᣲ" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Jwa is a script character within the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically representing a syllable in the Carrier language of the Dene family spoken in British Columbia, Canada. It denotes the sound typically transcribed as "jwa," where the initial consonant is a voiced palatal affricate followed by the vowel "wa." This glyph is part of the writing system developed by missionaries in the 19th century for Indigenous languages, and its standardized encoding in Unicode helps preserve and digitally support the Carrier orthography, ensuring that this unique linguistic symbol can be used in modern text documents and software.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18F2
Version Added	5.2
Name	Canadian Syllabics Carrier Jwa
Block	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᣲ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᣲ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xA3 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x18F2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000018F2
C/C++/Java Escape	\u18f2

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