U+13B7 "Ꮇ" Cherokee Letter Lu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13B7 "Ꮇ" Cherokee Letter Lu is a syllabic character from the Cherokee syllabary, a writing system developed by Sequoyah in the early 19th century. It represents the sound "lu" as spoken in the Cherokee language. This character is part of the Unicode Cherokee block, which was encoded to preserve and support digital representation of the Cherokee script. The letter is used in written Cherokee to form words and convey meaning, playing a role in the ongoing revitalization of the language and its use in modern communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13B7 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Lu |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꮇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꮇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8E 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13B7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013B7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13b7 |
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 | "ꮇ" U+AB87 Cherokee Small Letter Lu |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꮇ" U+AB87 Cherokee Small Letter Lu |
| 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 |