U+13DB "Ꮫ" Cherokee Letter Dv Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꮫ
U+13DB "Ꮫ" Cherokee Letter Dv is a syllabic character used in the modern Cherokee writing system, representing the sound "dv" (pronounced approximately like "duh-vuh"). It is part of the Cherokee block of Unicode, which includes the 85 syllabary characters originally developed by Sequoyah in the early 19th century to write the Cherokee language. This letter, like all Cherokee syllabary characters, corresponds to a specific syllable rather than a single consonant or vowel, making it essential for accurately transcribing spoken Cherokee in written form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13DB |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Dv |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꮫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꮫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8F 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13DB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013DB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13db |
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 | "ꮫ" U+ABAB Cherokee Small Letter Dv |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꮫ" U+ABAB Cherokee Small Letter Dv |
| 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 |