U+13CE "Ꮞ" Cherokee Letter Se Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13CE "Ꮞ" Cherokee Letter Se is a syllabic character representing the sound "se" in the Cherokee language, one of the 85 unique symbols in the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the early 19th century. This specific letter is part of the Cherokee block within the Unicode Standard, utilized for digital text representation and preservation of the Cherokee script, which is still used today for writing the Cherokee language across communities in Oklahoma and North Carolina. It visually corresponds to the Latin letter "S" but carries a distinct phonetic value, reflecting the innovative design of the syllabary that was created to be both visually and phonetically systematic for Cherokee speakers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13CE |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Se |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꮞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꮞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8F 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13CE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013CE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13ce |
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 | "ꮞ" U+AB9E Cherokee Small Letter Se |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꮞ" U+AB9E Cherokee Small Letter Se |
| 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 |