U+13AE "Ꭾ" Cherokee Letter He Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13AE "Ꭾ" Cherokee Letter He is a syllabic symbol used in the Cherokee writing system, representing the sound "he" as in the English word "head." This character is part of the Cherokee block within Unicode, which was added to support the indigenous Cherokee language of North America. The Cherokee syllabary, created by Sequoyah in the early 19th century, consists of 85 distinct characters, and "Ꭾ" is one of its letter forms used to write words and preserve the language's spoken traditions. In modern digital contexts, this character allows for accurate text representation and communication in Cherokee across various platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13AE |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter He |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꭾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꭾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8E 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13AE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13ae |
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 | "ꭾ" U+AB7E Cherokee Small Letter He |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꭾ" U+AB7E Cherokee Small Letter He |
| 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 |