U+13EC "Ꮼ" Cherokee Letter Wo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+13EC "Ꮼ" Cherokee Letter Wo is a syllabic character used in the Cherokee language, representing the sound "wo" as part of the Cherokee syllabary created by Sequoyah in the early 19th century. It belongs to the Cherokee block of Unicode, which encodes the full set of 85 characters used for writing Cherokee, an Iroquoian language primarily spoken in Oklahoma and North Carolina. When rendered in a compatible font, this character appears as a distinct geometric symbol, typically composed of straight lines and angles, reflecting the syllabary's unique visual style that differs significantly from Latin or other alphabetic scripts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital preservation and accessibility for Cherokee speakers, writers, and language revitalization efforts worldwide.

General Properties

Code Point U+13EC
Version Added 3.0
Name Cherokee Letter Wo
Block Cherokee
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding Ꮼ
HTML Hex Encoding Ꮼ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x8F 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x13EC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000013EC
C/C++/Java Escape \u13ec

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 "ꮼ" U+ABBC Cherokee Small Letter Wo
Lowercase Code Point "ꮼ" U+ABBC Cherokee Small Letter Wo
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