U+13BF "Ꮏ" Cherokee Letter Hna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13BF "Ꮏ" Cherokee Letter Hna is a syllabic character used in the Cherokee language, representing the sound "hna." It is part of the Cherokee block of Unicode, which was added to encode the Cherokee syllabary, a writing system developed in the early 19th century by Sequoyah. This particular letter is employed in modern Cherokee orthography to write words and names, contributing to the preservation and revitalization of the Cherokee language. The character has a distinctive visual form that resembles a single vertical line with a curved hook at the top, distinguishing it from other Cherokee syllabary glyphs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13BF |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Hna |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꮏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꮏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8E 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13BF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013BF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13bf |
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 | "ꮏ" U+AB8F Cherokee Small Letter Hna |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꮏ" U+AB8F Cherokee Small Letter Hna |
| 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 |