U+13A6 "Ꭶ" Cherokee Letter Ga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꭶ
U+13A6 "Ꭶ" Cherokee Letter Ga is a single character from the Cherokee syllabary, a writing system invented by Sequoyah in the early 19th century to represent the sounds of the Cherokee language. This specific glyph, visually resembling a capital "J" or an inverted hook, denotes the syllable "ga" and was standardized in the Unicode standard under the Cherokee block, originally encoded in version 3.0 released in 1999. It is actively used in digital text for the Cherokee language, primarily spoken by the Cherokee people in Oklahoma and North Carolina, helping to preserve and modernize their linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13A6 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Ga |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꭶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꭶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8E 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13A6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013A6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13a6 |
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 | "ꭶ" U+AB76 Cherokee Small Letter Ga |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꭶ" U+AB76 Cherokee Small Letter Ga |
| 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 |