U+13DF "Ꮯ" Cherokee Letter Tli Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13DF "Ꮯ" Cherokee Letter Tli is a specific glyph used in the Cherokee syllabary, a writing system developed by Sequoyah in the early 19th century to represent the sounds of the Cherokee language. This character encodes the syllable pronounced as "tli" and is part of the Cherokee block within Unicode, which was added to support digital text in Cherokee across various platforms and devices. As a modern digital representation of a historical script, U+13DF helps preserve and enable the written use of the Cherokee language, facilitating communication, education, and cultural continuity for Cherokee speakers and learners worldwide.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13DF |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Tli |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꮯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꮯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8F 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13DF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013DF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13df |
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 | "ꮯ" U+ABAF Cherokee Small Letter Tli |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꮯ" U+ABAF Cherokee Small Letter Tli |
| 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 |