U+13A0 "Ꭰ" Cherokee Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꭰ
U+13A0 "Ꭰ" Cherokee Letter A is the first letter of the Cherokee syllabary, representing the sound 'a' as in the English word "father." Created by Sequoyah in the early 19th century, this syllabary was a groundbreaking writing system that enabled widespread literacy among the Cherokee people. The character itself is visually distinct, resembling a capital Latin 'D' with a crossbar at the top, and it serves as a key element in preserving and transmitting the Cherokee language through written texts, official documents, and modern digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13A0 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter A |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꭰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꭰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8E 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13A0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013A0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13a0 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ꭰ" U+AB70 Cherokee Small Letter A |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꭰ" U+AB70 Cherokee Small Letter A |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Script | Cherokee |
| Script Extensions | Cherokee |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |