U+AB77 "ꭷ" Cherokee Small Letter Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꭷ
U+AB77 "ꭷ" Cherokee Small Letter Ka is a lowercase form of the Cherokee syllabary character representing the syllable "ka" and is part of the Unicode block dedicated to the Cherokee script, which underwent a significant expansion in version 8.0 to support a case distinction akin to Latin alphabets. This lowercase character is used in modern typesetting and digital text to match the casing conventions adopted for the Cherokee language, allowing for proper capitalization in grammatical contexts such as sentence beginnings or proper nouns. Its introduction helps preserve and standardize the written form of Cherokee, enabling more accurate and culturally respectful representation in electronic documents and online communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB77 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter Ka |
| Block | Cherokee Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꭷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꭷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAD 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB77 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB77 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab77 |
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 | "Ꭷ" U+13A7 Cherokee Letter Ka |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꭷ" U+13A7 Cherokee Letter Ka |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꭷ" U+13A7 Cherokee Letter Ka |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꭷ" U+13A7 Cherokee Letter Ka |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ꭷ" U+13A7 Cherokee Letter Ka |
| Case Folding | "Ꭷ" U+13A7 Cherokee Letter Ka |
| 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 | "Ꭷ" U+13A7 Cherokee Letter Ka |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ꭷ" U+13A7 Cherokee Letter Ka |
| 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 |