U+13A9 "Ꭹ" Cherokee Letter Gi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13A9 "Ꭹ" Cherokee Letter Gi is a syllabic character used in the Cherokee language, representing the sound "gi." This character is part of the Cherokee script, which was developed in the early 19th century by Sequoyah to create a written form for the Cherokee language, and it is included in the Unicode Standard to facilitate digital representation and exchange of Cherokee text. The letter "Gi" is one of 85 characters in the Cherokee syllabary, each representing a distinct syllable, and it plays a role in preserving and promoting the linguistic heritage of the Cherokee people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13A9 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Gi |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꭹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꭹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8E 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13A9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013A9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13a9 |
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 | "ꭹ" U+AB79 Cherokee Small Letter Gi |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꭹ" U+AB79 Cherokee Small Letter Gi |
| 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 |