U+15D9 "" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Hwee Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans Canadian Aboriginal Source: Browser Default

U+15D9 "" Canadian Syllabics Carrier Hwee is a letter used in the writing system for the Carrier language (also known as Dakelh) spoken by the Carrier people in British Columbia, Canada. It represents a specific syllable sound in the Carrier syllabary, which was originally developed by missionaries in the 19th century to transcribe Indigenous languages. This character is part of a larger set of Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics that is encoded in the Unicode standard to support digital text representation for various First Nations languages. Visually, "ᗙ" appears as a distinct glyph with a shape that combines a circle and a hooked or angled stroke, corresponding to phonetic values in the Carrier linguistic system.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ᗙ
HTML Hex Encoding
ᗙ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x97 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding
0x15D9
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000015D9
C/C++/Java Escape
\u15d9