U+13A5 "Ꭵ" Cherokee Letter V Unicode Character

U+13A5 "Ꭵ" Cherokee Letter V is a syllabic character from the Cherokee syllabary, representing the vowel sound "v" as in the English word "above." It has been encoded in the Unicode Standard since version 3.0, released in 1999, to support the digital preservation and use of the Cherokee language, which was historically written using a script developed by Sequoyah in the early 19th century. This character is part of the Cherokee block (U+13A0 to U+13FF) and is used in modern orthography for writing Cherokee texts, such as in newspapers, educational materials, and digital communication, helping to maintain and promote the linguistic heritage of the Cherokee people.

General Properties

Code Point	U+13A5
Version Added	3.0
Name	Cherokee Letter V
Block	Cherokee
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꭵ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꭵ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x8E 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x13A5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000013A5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u13a5

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	"ꭵ" U+AB75 Cherokee Small Letter V
Lowercase Code Point	"ꭵ" U+AB75 Cherokee Small Letter V
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