U+AB83 "ꮃ" Cherokee Small Letter La Unicode Character

U+AB83 "ꮃ" Cherokee Small Letter La is a lowercase representation of the Cherokee syllabic character for the sound "la," part of the Cherokee script used historically for writing the Cherokee language. It belongs to the Cherokee Small Letters block (U+AB70 to U+ABB0) and is specifically the lowercase version of the uppercase character U+13A3 "Ꭳ" (Cherokee Letter La), introduced to support proper sentence casing and typographic conventions in digital text. While the Cherokee language predominantly uses uppercase syllabary characters in traditional writing, the small letter variants like this one were added to Unicode to facilitate modern usage, such as in bilingual documents or when following Latin-style capitalization rules for proper nouns or the start of sentences. Its inclusion ensures broader compatibility for preserving and revitalizing the Cherokee language in electronic formats.

General Properties

Code Point	U+AB83
Version Added	8.0
Name	Cherokee Small Letter La
Block	Cherokee Supplement
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ꮃ
HTML Hex Encoding	ꮃ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0xAE 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xAB83
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000AB83
C/C++/Java Escape	\uab83

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	"Ꮃ" U+13B3 Cherokee Letter La
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꮃ" U+13B3 Cherokee Letter La
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꮃ" U+13B3 Cherokee Letter La
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꮃ" U+13B3 Cherokee Letter La
Simple Case Folding	"Ꮃ" U+13B3 Cherokee Letter La
Case Folding	"Ꮃ" U+13B3 Cherokee Letter La
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	"Ꮃ" U+13B3 Cherokee Letter La
NFKC Simple Casefold	"Ꮃ" U+13B3 Cherokee Letter La
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