U+AB7F "ꭿ" Cherokee Small Letter Hi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꭿ
U+AB7F "ꭿ" Cherokee Small Letter Hi is a lowercase letter used in the modern Cherokee syllabary, representing the sound "hi." It is part of the Cherokee block of Unicode, which was expanded to include lowercase forms to support bilingual text and more natural typographic formatting in digital environments. This character complements its uppercase counterpart "Ꭿ" and is primarily employed in written Cherokee when case distinction is desired, such as in sentence capitalization or proper nouns, though traditional Cherokee writing often does not distinguish between uppercase and lowercase.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB7F |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter Hi |
| Block | Cherokee Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꭿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꭿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAD 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB7F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB7F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab7f |
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 | "Ꭿ" U+13AF Cherokee Letter Hi |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꭿ" U+13AF Cherokee Letter Hi |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꭿ" U+13AF Cherokee Letter Hi |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꭿ" U+13AF Cherokee Letter Hi |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ꭿ" U+13AF Cherokee Letter Hi |
| Case Folding | "Ꭿ" U+13AF Cherokee Letter Hi |
| 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 | "Ꭿ" U+13AF Cherokee Letter Hi |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ꭿ" U+13AF Cherokee Letter Hi |
| 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 |