U+13C0 "Ꮐ" Cherokee Letter Nah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13C0 "Ꮐ" Cherokee Letter Nah is a character from the Cherokee syllabary, a writing system created by Sequoyah in the early 19th century to represent the sounds of the Cherokee language. This specific character corresponds to the syllable pronounced "nah" and was part of the original syllabary, which includes symbols for each distinct syllable in Cherokee, allowing the language to be written and read with high phonetic accuracy. The inclusion of U+13C0 in Unicode, as part of the Cherokee block (U+13A0 to U+13FF), ensures that the Cherokee Letter Nah can be digitally represented and used in modern electronic texts, preserving its role in Cherokee literacy and cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13C0 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Nah |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꮐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꮐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8F 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13C0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013C0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13c0 |
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 | "ꮐ" U+AB90 Cherokee Small Letter Nah |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꮐ" U+AB90 Cherokee Small Letter Nah |
| 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 |