U+13EA "Ꮺ" Cherokee Letter We Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13EA "Ꮺ" Cherokee Letter We is a syllabic symbol representing the sound "we" in the Cherokee language, one of the 85 characters in the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the early 19th century. This character is part of the Unicode block for Cherokee, encoded to support digital preservation and use of the language across modern computing systems. It appears as a distinct glyph in various fonts and is used in written Cherokee text, alongside others, to accurately transcribe the spoken syllables of the language, which is still spoken by Cherokee communities today. The character's inclusion in Unicode helps ensure that Cherokee cultural and linguistic heritage can be maintained and shared in digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13EA |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter We |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꮺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꮺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8F 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13EA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013EA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13ea |
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 | "ꮺ" U+ABBA Cherokee Small Letter We |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꮺ" U+ABBA Cherokee Small Letter We |
| 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 |