U+13A4 "Ꭴ" Cherokee Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꭴ
U+13A4 "Ꭴ" Cherokee Letter U is a syllabic character from the Cherokee syllabary, representing the sound "u" as in the English word "blue." It was invented by Sequoyah in the early 19th century to write the Cherokee language and was later encoded in the Unicode standard to support digital representation of Indigenous scripts. This character appears in the Cherokee block of Unicode and is used in modern written Cherokee for words ranging from everyday vocabulary to official documents, playing a vital role in preserving and revitalizing the Cherokee language across digital platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13A4 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter U |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꭴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꭴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8E 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13A4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013A4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13a4 |
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 | "ꭴ" U+AB74 Cherokee Small Letter U |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꭴ" U+AB74 Cherokee Small Letter U |
| 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 |