U+13AF "Ꭿ" Cherokee Letter Hi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13AF "Ꭿ" Cherokee Letter Hi is a syllabic character from the Cherokee script, representing the sound "hi" as used in the Cherokee language. It is part of the Cherokee block in Unicode, which was added to support the written form of the Cherokee language developed by Sequoyah in the early 19th century. This character is used in modern Cherokee writing for words and phrases, contributing to the preservation and revitalization of the language, and it appears in digital texts, such as language learning materials and online resources.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13AF |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Hi |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꭿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꭿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8E 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13AF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13af |
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 | "ꭿ" U+AB7F Cherokee Small Letter Hi |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꭿ" U+AB7F Cherokee Small Letter Hi |
| 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 |