U+143A "ᐺ" Canadian Syllabics Pwe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+143A "ᐺ" Canadian Syllabics Pwe is a character within the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, specifically used in the Cree language to represent the syllable "pwe". It is part of a writing system developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans for Indigenous languages in Canada, where characters are formed by rotating and reflecting basic shapes to represent different vowel combinations. This character is a rotated variant of the base syllabic for "pe" (ᐯ), altered to denote the "w" sound before the vowel, and its use preserves the phonetic structure of Cree and supports cultural and linguistic revitalization efforts.
General Properties
Code Point
U+143A
Name
Canadian Syllabics Pwe
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ᐺ
HTML Hex Encoding
ᐺ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x90 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding
0x143A
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000143A
C/C++/Java Escape
\u143a
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Canadian Aboriginal