U+13E8 "Ꮸ" Cherokee Letter Tsv Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13E8 "Ꮸ" Cherokee Letter Tsv is a character from the Cherokee syllabary, a writing system invented by Sequoyah in the early 19th century to represent the sounds of the Cherokee language. This specific character encodes the syllable "tsv," which is pronounced similarly to the English word "jew" with a soft initial sound. It belongs to the Cherokee block of Unicode, which was added to the standard to support the digital preservation and use of the Cherokee script across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13E8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Tsv |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꮸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꮸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8F 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13e8 |
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 | "ꮸ" U+ABB8 Cherokee Small Letter Tsv |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꮸ" U+ABB8 Cherokee Small Letter Tsv |
| 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 |