U+13FB "ᏻ" Cherokee Small Letter Yu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᏻ
U+13FB "ᏻ" Cherokee Small Letter Yu is a lowercase representation of the Cherokee syllabary character for the sound "yu," part of the Cherokee language's writing system developed by Sequoyah in the early 19th century. This character, along with other uppercase and lowercase Cherokee letters, was added to Unicode version 11.0 in 2018 to support modern digital text rendering and preservation of the language. The small letter form "ᏻ" is used in lowercase contexts, such as in proper typography for textual content, while its uppercase counterpart is U+13DB "Ꮫ."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+13FB |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter Yu |
| Block | Cherokee |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᏻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᏻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x13FB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000013FB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u13fb |
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 | "Ᏻ" U+13F3 Cherokee Letter Yu |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ᏻ" U+13F3 Cherokee Letter Yu |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ᏻ" U+13F3 Cherokee Letter Yu |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ᏻ" U+13F3 Cherokee Letter Yu |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ᏻ" U+13F3 Cherokee Letter Yu |
| Case Folding | "Ᏻ" U+13F3 Cherokee Letter Yu |
| 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 | "Ᏻ" U+13F3 Cherokee Letter Yu |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ᏻ" U+13F3 Cherokee Letter Yu |
| 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 |