U+13CA "Ꮚ" Cherokee Letter Quu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꮚ
U+13CA "Ꮚ" Cherokee Letter Quu is a glyph from the Cherokee syllabary, representing the syllable pronounced "quu" (or /kʷu/) and historically used in the written form of the Cherokee language. This character is part of the Cherokee block in the Unicode standard, which encodes the script invented by Sequoyah in the early 19th century to transcribe the Cherokee spoken language. As a distinct letter, "Ꮚ" is used in proper Cherokee words and names, contributing to the preservation and digital representation of the language in modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13CA |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Quu |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꮚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꮚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8F 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13CA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13ca |
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 | "ꮚ" U+AB9A Cherokee Small Letter Quu |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꮚ" U+AB9A Cherokee Small Letter Quu |
| 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 |