U+13E5 "Ꮵ" Cherokee Letter Tsi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13E5 "Ꮵ" Cherokee Letter Tsi is a character from the Cherokee syllabary, a writing system invented by Sequoyah in the early 19th century, representing the syllable "tsi." This specific character appears in the Cherokee block of Unicode, which supports the modern written form of the Cherokee language, used primarily by the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. The letter is typically used in standard Cherokee orthography to denote a voiceless affricate sound, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that Cherokee texts can be accurately digitized, preserved, and shared across electronic platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13E5 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Tsi |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꮵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꮵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8F 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13E5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013E5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13e5 |
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 | "ꮵ" U+ABB5 Cherokee Small Letter Tsi |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꮵ" U+ABB5 Cherokee Small Letter Tsi |
| 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 |