U+13B9 "Ꮉ" Cherokee Letter Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13B9 "Ꮉ" Cherokee Letter Ma is a symbol from the Cherokee syllabary, representing the syllable "ma" as used in the Cherokee language. It is part of the Cherokee block within the Unicode standard, which includes a set of characters created by Sequoyah in the early 19th century to enable literacy among the Cherokee people. This specific letter is utilized in writing words and names in Cherokee, playing a key role in preserving and continuing the use of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13B9 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Ma |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꮉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꮉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8E 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13b9 |
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 | "ꮉ" U+AB89 Cherokee Small Letter Ma |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꮉ" U+AB89 Cherokee Small Letter Ma |
| 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 |