U+155C "ᕜ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Fwaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+155C "ᕜ" Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Fwaa is part of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, used primarily in the Western Cree writing system to represent the phonetic syllable "fwaa." This character belongs to a script developed for Indigenous languages in Canada, specifically adapted to transcribe sounds not found in English or French, such as the labial fricative "f" combined with a long "waa" vowel. It appears in historical and linguistic texts, as well as modern digital representations of the Nêhiyawêwin (Cree) language, helping preserve and encode the distinctive voice of West-Cree dialects in written form.
General Properties
Code Point
U+155C
Name
Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Fwaa
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ᕜ
HTML Hex Encoding
ᕜ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x95 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding
0x155C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000155C
C/C++/Java Escape
\u155c
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Canadian Aboriginal