U+13AB "Ꭻ" Cherokee Letter Gu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13AB "Ꭻ" Cherokee Letter Gu is a syllabic character from the Cherokee syllabary, representing the sound "gu." It was part of the original syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the early 19th century to write the Cherokee language, and it is used in contemporary Cherokee texts, signage, and digital communication. This character is encoded in the Unicode standard's Cherokee block, allowing it to be displayed and typed across modern computing platforms, thereby supporting the preservation and revitalization of the Cherokee language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13AB |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Gu |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꭻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꭻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8E 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13ab |
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 | "ꭻ" U+AB7B Cherokee Small Letter Gu |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꭻ" U+AB7B Cherokee Small Letter Gu |
| 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 |