U+AB81 "ꮁ" Cherokee Small Letter Hu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꮁ
U+AB81 "ꮁ" Cherokee Small Letter Hu is a lowercase letter in the Cherokee syllabary, representing the syllable "hu" and used to write the Cherokee language. It is part of the Cherokee Small Letters block added in Unicode version 8.0 to support the standard case distinction for Cherokee, which includes both uppercase and lowercase forms. This character also exists as an uppercase counterpart at U+13F4 "Ᏼ" Cherokee Letter Hu, and its inclusion aids in proper text formatting and digital preservation of the Cherokee writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB81 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter Hu |
| Block | Cherokee Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꮁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꮁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAE 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB81 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB81 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab81 |
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 | "Ꮁ" U+13B1 Cherokee Letter Hu |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮁ" U+13B1 Cherokee Letter Hu |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꮁ" U+13B1 Cherokee Letter Hu |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮁ" U+13B1 Cherokee Letter Hu |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ꮁ" U+13B1 Cherokee Letter Hu |
| Case Folding | "Ꮁ" U+13B1 Cherokee Letter Hu |
| 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 | "Ꮁ" U+13B1 Cherokee Letter Hu |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ꮁ" U+13B1 Cherokee Letter Hu |
| 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 |