U+13B5 "Ꮅ" Cherokee Letter Li Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13B5 "Ꮅ" Cherokee Letter Li is a syllabic character used in the Cherokee script to represent the sound "li." It belongs to the Cherokee block of Unicode, which was standardized to support the written language of the Cherokee people, primarily spoken in Oklahoma and North Carolina. This character, along with the rest of the Cherokee syllabary, was invented by Sequoyah in the early 19th century and remains an essential part of Cherokee literacy and cultural identity today.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13B5 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Li |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꮅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꮅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8E 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13B5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013B5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13b5 |
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 | "ꮅ" U+AB85 Cherokee Small Letter Li |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꮅ" U+AB85 Cherokee Small Letter Li |
| 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 |