U+AB79 "ꭹ" Cherokee Small Letter Gi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꭹ
U+AB79 "ꭹ" Cherokee Small Letter Gi is a lowercase glyph used in the modern representation of the Cherokee language, specifically representing the syllable pronounced as "gi." It is part of the Cherokee Small Letters block (U+AB70 to U+ABBF), which was added to the Unicode Standard to support the full lowercase form of the Cherokee syllabary, allowing for mixed-case text alongside the traditional uppercase letters. This character is used in written Cherokee to denote the specific sound and is essential for proper orthography in educational and cultural contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB79 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter Gi |
| Block | Cherokee Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꭹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꭹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAD 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB79 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB79 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab79 |
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 | "Ꭹ" U+13A9 Cherokee Letter Gi |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꭹ" U+13A9 Cherokee Letter Gi |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꭹ" U+13A9 Cherokee Letter Gi |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꭹ" U+13A9 Cherokee Letter Gi |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ꭹ" U+13A9 Cherokee Letter Gi |
| Case Folding | "Ꭹ" U+13A9 Cherokee Letter Gi |
| 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 | "Ꭹ" U+13A9 Cherokee Letter Gi |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ꭹ" U+13A9 Cherokee Letter Gi |
| 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 |