U+13E7 "Ꮷ" Cherokee Letter Tsu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13E7 "Ꮷ" Cherokee Letter Tsu is a syllabic character used in the modern Cherokee writing system, representing the sound "tsu" as in the English word "tsunami". It is part of the Cherokee block in Unicode, which was added to support the Cherokee language, an Iroquoian language spoken primarily by the Cherokee people in the United States. Originally developed by Sequoyah in the early 19th century, the Cherokee syllabary, including this character, is a rare example of a writing system created by an individual without prior literacy in any other script. Today, "Ꮷ" appears in various contexts, from traditional Cherokee texts to digital communication, helping to preserve and revitalize the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13E7 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Tsu |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꮷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꮷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8F 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13E7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013E7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13e7 |
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 | "ꮷ" U+ABB7 Cherokee Small Letter Tsu |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꮷ" U+ABB7 Cherokee Small Letter Tsu |
| 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 |