U+AB70 "ꭰ" Cherokee Small Letter A Unicode Character

U+AB70 "ꭰ" Cherokee Small Letter A is part of the Cherokee Supplement block, representing the lowercase form of the Cherokee syllable "a." It corresponds to the uppercase Cherokee character "Ꭰ" (U+13A0) and is used in modern Cherokee orthography to standardize the representation of the language in both uppercase and lowercase, facilitating digital text processing and typographic consistency. Introduced in Unicode version 8.0 (2015), this character helps preserve the Cherokee script's phonetic legacy and supports educational and cultural revitalization efforts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+AB70
Version Added	8.0
Name	Cherokee Small Letter A
Block	Cherokee Supplement
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ꭰ
HTML Hex Encoding	ꭰ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0xAD 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xAB70
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000AB70
C/C++/Java Escape	\uab70

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	"Ꭰ" U+13A0 Cherokee Letter A
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꭰ" U+13A0 Cherokee Letter A
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꭰ" U+13A0 Cherokee Letter A
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꭰ" U+13A0 Cherokee Letter A
Simple Case Folding	"Ꭰ" U+13A0 Cherokee Letter A
Case Folding	"Ꭰ" U+13A0 Cherokee Letter A
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	"Ꭰ" U+13A0 Cherokee Letter A
NFKC Simple Casefold	"Ꭰ" U+13A0 Cherokee Letter A
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