U+13B1 "Ꮁ" Cherokee Letter Hu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13B1 "Ꮁ" Cherokee Letter Hu is a symbol from the Cherokee syllabary, representing the phonetic sound "hu." Developed by Cherokee silversmith Sequoyah in the early 19th century, the syllabary was a unique writing system that enabled widespread literacy among the Cherokee people. This specific character is part of the Cherokee block in Unicode, used for writing the Cherokee language, which is still spoken by communities primarily in Oklahoma and North Carolina.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13B1 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Hu |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꮁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꮁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8E 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13B1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013B1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13b1 |
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 | "ꮁ" U+AB81 Cherokee Small Letter Hu |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꮁ" U+AB81 Cherokee Small Letter Hu |
| 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 |