U+13FA "ᏺ" Cherokee Small Letter Yo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+13FA "ᏺ" Cherokee Small Letter Yo is a character from the Cherokee syllabary, representing the syllable "yo." It is part of the Cherokee language's writing system developed by Sequoyah in the early 19th century, which enabled the Cherokee Nation to achieve widespread literacy. This specific glyph is the lowercase form, contrasting with the uppercase version encoded as U+13BA, and it falls within the Cherokee block of Unicode, used for digital text rendering in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13FA |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter Yo |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᏺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᏺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8F 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13FA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013FA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13fa |
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 | "Ᏺ" U+13F2 Cherokee Letter Yo |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ᏺ" U+13F2 Cherokee Letter Yo |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ᏺ" U+13F2 Cherokee Letter Yo |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ᏺ" U+13F2 Cherokee Letter Yo |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ᏺ" U+13F2 Cherokee Letter Yo |
| Case Folding | "Ᏺ" U+13F2 Cherokee Letter Yo |
| 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 | "Ᏺ" U+13F2 Cherokee Letter Yo |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ᏺ" U+13F2 Cherokee Letter Yo |
| 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 |