U+13D9 "Ꮩ" Cherokee Letter Do Unicode Character

U+13D9 "Ꮩ" Cherokee Letter Do is a syllabic character used in the modern Cherokee writing system, representing the sound "do" as in the English word "dough." It was introduced in the Cherokee syllabary created by Sequoyah in the early 19th century, and this specific symbol is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support digital representation of the Cherokee language. In Cherokee, it appears in words such as ᏙᎯᏧ (dohitsu), meaning "everything," and is part of a block of characters that preserves the unique script for writing in Cherokee.

General Properties

Code Point	U+13D9
Version Added	3.0
Name	Cherokee Letter Do
Block	Cherokee
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꮩ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꮩ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x8F 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x13D9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000013D9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u13d9

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	"ꮩ" U+ABA9 Cherokee Small Letter Do
Lowercase Code Point	"ꮩ" U+ABA9 Cherokee Small Letter Do
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