U+13EF "Ꮿ" Cherokee Letter Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13EF "Ꮿ" Cherokee Letter Ya is a syllabic character from the Cherokee script, representing the sound "ya" as used in the Cherokee language. It is part of the Cherokee block in Unicode, which was encoded to support the preservation and digital use of the Cherokee writing system originally developed by Sequoyah in the early 19th century. This letter is used in modern Cherokee writing, appearing in texts, educational materials, and digital communication to represent the specific syllable in words and phrases.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13EF |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Letter Ya |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꮿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꮿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8F 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13EF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13ef |
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 | "ꮿ" U+ABBF Cherokee Small Letter Ya |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꮿ" U+ABBF Cherokee Small Letter Ya |
| 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 |