U+AB7B "ꭻ" Cherokee Small Letter Gu Unicode Character
U+AB7B "ꭻ" Cherokee Small Letter Gu is a lowercase glyph representing the syllable "gu" in the Cherokee language, part of the Cherokee Small Letters block added in Unicode version 8.0 to support the complete phonetic range of the Cherokee syllabary. This character, along with other small Cherokee letters, was specifically encoded to facilitate the use of lowercase forms in modern typography, enabling better integration with standard Latin text while preserving the language's unique writing system. Its design derives from the Cherokee script created by Sequoyah in the early 19th century, and it corresponds to the uppercase version U+13BB "Ꮋ" Cherokee Letter Gu, maintaining the visual relationship between majuscule and minuscule forms for consistent and readable representation of Cherokee text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB7B |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter Gu |
| Block | Cherokee Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꭻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꭻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAD 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB7B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB7B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab7b |
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 | "Ꭻ" U+13AB Cherokee Letter Gu |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꭻ" U+13AB Cherokee Letter Gu |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꭻ" U+13AB Cherokee Letter Gu |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꭻ" U+13AB Cherokee Letter Gu |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ꭻ" U+13AB Cherokee Letter Gu |
| Case Folding | "Ꭻ" U+13AB Cherokee Letter Gu |
| 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 | "Ꭻ" U+13AB Cherokee Letter Gu |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ꭻ" U+13AB Cherokee Letter Gu |
| 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 |