U+13ED "Ꮽ" Cherokee Letter Wu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13ED "Ꮽ" Cherokee Letter Wu is a syllabic character from the Cherokee syllabary, representing the sound "wu". Developed by Sequoyah in the early 19th century, this script was designed to allow the Cherokee language to be written and read by its speakers. The character is used in modern Cherokee writing and digital text, preserved and encoded in Unicode to support the language's ongoing cultural and linguistic vitality.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13ED |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Wu |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꮽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꮽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8F 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13ED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013ED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13ed |
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 | "ꮽ" U+ABBD Cherokee Small Letter Wu |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꮽ" U+ABBD Cherokee Small Letter Wu |
| 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 |