U+13B8 "Ꮈ" Cherokee Letter Lv Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꮈ
U+13B8 "Ꮈ" Cherokee Letter Lv is a character used in the Cherokee syllabary, a writing system created by Sequoyah in the early 19th century to represent the Cherokee language. This specific character corresponds to the "lv" or "lɅ" syllable, pronounced similarly to the "lv" in the English word "love." It is part of the Cherokee block in Unicode, ensuring standard encoding across digital platforms for preserving and writing the Cherokee language in modern contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13B8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Lv |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꮈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꮈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8E 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13b8 |
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 | "ꮈ" U+AB88 Cherokee Small Letter Lv |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꮈ" U+AB88 Cherokee Small Letter Lv |
| 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 |