U+AB72 "ꭲ" Cherokee Small Letter I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꭲ
U+AB72 "ꭲ" Cherokee Small Letter I is part of the Cherokee language script, representing a lowercase form of the Cherokee syllabary character for the vowel sound "i." It was added to the Unicode Standard in version 8.0, released in 2015, to support the phonetic and typographic needs of the modern written Cherokee language, which uses a syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the early 19th century. This small letter variant, along with other lowercase Cherokee characters, allows for proper capitalization patterns in texts, such as in titles or sentence beginnings, while the uppercase form (U+13A2 "Ꭲ") serves the same function in a larger case.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB72 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter I |
| Block | Cherokee Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꭲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꭲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAD 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB72 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB72 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab72 |
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 | "Ꭲ" U+13A2 Cherokee Letter I |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꭲ" U+13A2 Cherokee Letter I |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꭲ" U+13A2 Cherokee Letter I |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꭲ" U+13A2 Cherokee Letter I |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ꭲ" U+13A2 Cherokee Letter I |
| Case Folding | "Ꭲ" U+13A2 Cherokee Letter I |
| 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 | "Ꭲ" U+13A2 Cherokee Letter I |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ꭲ" U+13A2 Cherokee Letter I |
| 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 |