U+13C8 "Ꮘ" Cherokee Letter Qui Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+13C8 "Ꮘ" Cherokee Letter Qui is a syllabic character used in the modern written form of the Cherokee language, representing the sound "qui" as in the English word "queen." It is part of the Cherokee syllabary, a writing system invented by Sequoyah in the early 19th century, which consists of 85 distinct characters for different syllables. This specific letter belongs to the group of characters that use the base consonant "q" combined with the vowel sound "i," and it appears in the Unicode block for Cherokee, which was added in version 3.0 of the standard in 1999 to support digital preservation of the language. The character is still actively used in Cherokee writing today, including in educational materials, religious texts, and official communications within Cherokee communities.

General Properties

Code Point U+13C8
Version Added 3.0
Name Cherokee Letter Qui
Block Cherokee
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding Ꮘ
HTML Hex Encoding Ꮘ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x8F 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0x13C8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000013C8
C/C++/Java Escape \u13c8

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 "ꮘ" U+AB98 Cherokee Small Letter Qui
Lowercase Code Point "ꮘ" U+AB98 Cherokee Small Letter Qui
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