U+14CB "ᓋ" Canadian Syllabics Nwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+14CB "ᓋ" Canadian Syllabics Nwa is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, which is used to write several Indigenous languages of Canada, such as Inuktitut and Cree. This specific syllabic represents the sound "nwa", a combination of the consonant "n" with the vowel-like element "wa", and is constructed as a rotated or flipped version of the character for "na". It belongs to a writing system developed in the 19th century by missionary James Evans to facilitate literacy among Indigenous communities, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that these languages can be used in modern digital text, email, and web pages.
General Properties
Code Point
U+14CB
Name
Canadian Syllabics Nwa
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ᓋ
HTML Hex Encoding
ᓋ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x93 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding
0x14CB
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000014CB
C/C++/Java Escape
\u14cb
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Canadian Aboriginal