U+13CC "Ꮜ" Cherokee Letter Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13CC "Ꮜ" Cherokee Letter Sa is a character in the Cherokee syllabary, representing the syllable for the sound "sa." This script was invented by Sequoyah in the early 19th century to write the Cherokee language, and the letter Sa is part of the system that allows for the phonetic representation of Cherokee speech. As an encoded character in Unicode, it enables the digital preservation and accurate rendering of Cherokee text across modern computing platforms, supporting the ongoing use and revitalization of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13CC |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Sa |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꮜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꮜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8F 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13CC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013CC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13cc |
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 | "ꮜ" U+AB9C Cherokee Small Letter Sa |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꮜ" U+AB9C Cherokee Small Letter Sa |
| 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 |