U+13F8 "ᏸ" Cherokee Small Letter Ye Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13F8 "ᏸ" Cherokee Small Letter Ye is a lowercase representation of a specific syllable in the Cherokee language, corresponding to the sound "ye" and part of the unified Cherokee syllabary block. Historically, the small or lowercase forms like this were introduced in Unicode version 8.0 to support a second casing distinction, as traditional Cherokee writing was originally unicase, but later typographic practices adopted these small letters for use in certain contexts such as bilingual texts or to match Latin casing conventions. This character is encoded in the Unicode block for Cherokee supplements, allowing digital representation and processing of the language with greater typographic flexibility.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13F8 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter Ye |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᏸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᏸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8F 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13F8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013F8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13f8 |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ᏸ" U+13F0 Cherokee Letter Ye |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ᏸ" U+13F0 Cherokee Letter Ye |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ᏸ" U+13F0 Cherokee Letter Ye |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ᏸ" U+13F0 Cherokee Letter Ye |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ᏸ" U+13F0 Cherokee Letter Ye |
| Case Folding | "Ᏸ" U+13F0 Cherokee Letter Ye |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "Ᏸ" U+13F0 Cherokee Letter Ye |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ᏸ" U+13F0 Cherokee Letter Ye |
| 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 | Lower |