U+13BE "Ꮎ" Cherokee Letter Na Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13BE "Ꮎ" Cherokee Letter Na represents a single syllable in the Cherokee syllabary, a writing system developed by Sequoyah in the early 19th century to transcribe the Cherokee language. This character is used to denote the sound "na" and is part of a set of eighty five syllabic characters that enabled widespread literacy among the Cherokee people. Encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Cherokee block, "Ꮎ" serves as a vital digital representation for preserving and typing the Cherokee language in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13BE |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Na |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꮎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꮎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8E 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13BE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13be |
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 | "ꮎ" U+AB8E Cherokee Small Letter Na |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꮎ" U+AB8E Cherokee Small Letter Na |
| 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 |