U+13B3 "Ꮃ" Cherokee Letter La Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13B3 "Ꮃ" Cherokee Letter La is a character from the Cherokee syllabary, representing the syllable "la" as used in the Cherokee language. It is encoded in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended block, reflecting the historical adaptation of a writing system for Indigenous languages, and is part of the Cherokee script designed by Sequoyah in the early 19th century. The character is commonly used in modern digital text to preserve and transmit the Cherokee language, and it has a corresponding uppercase and lowercase form in the Unicode standard to support proper case-sensitive writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13B3 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter La |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꮃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꮃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8E 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13B3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013B3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13b3 |
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 | "ꮃ" U+AB83 Cherokee Small Letter La |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꮃ" U+AB83 Cherokee Small Letter La |
| 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 |