U+143F "ᐿ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Pwii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+143F "ᐿ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Pwii is a symbol from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing a specific syllable sound in the Western Cree writing system, where the consonant "p" is combined with the vowel "wii" to form a single glyph. This character is part of a broader script invented in the 19th century by missionary James Evans for Indigenous languages, and it is used primarily in the Plains Cree dialect to denote the distinctive phonetic combination that is essential for accurate written communication in that language.
General Properties
Code Point
U+143F
Name
Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Pwii
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ᐿ
HTML Hex Encoding
ᐿ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x90 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding
0x143F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000143F
C/C++/Java Escape
\u143f
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Canadian Aboriginal