U+AB87 "ꮇ" Cherokee Small Letter Lu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꮇ
U+AB87 "ꮇ" Cherokee Small Letter Lu is a lowercase letter used in the Cherokee syllabary, representing the sound "lu" as part of the modern Cherokee writing system developed by Sequoyah in the early 19th century. This character belongs to the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended Unicode block, which includes precise case distinctions for Cherokee, where uppercase forms are encoded separately. In digital text, it is distinct from its uppercase counterpart (U+13B7 Ꮇ) and is primarily utilized for typesetting the Cherokee language in lowercase contexts, aiding in proper linguistic representation and readability.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB87 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter Lu |
| Block | Cherokee Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꮇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꮇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAE 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB87 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB87 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab87 |
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 | "Ꮇ" U+13B7 Cherokee Letter Lu |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮇ" U+13B7 Cherokee Letter Lu |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꮇ" U+13B7 Cherokee Letter Lu |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮇ" U+13B7 Cherokee Letter Lu |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ꮇ" U+13B7 Cherokee Letter Lu |
| Case Folding | "Ꮇ" U+13B7 Cherokee Letter Lu |
| 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 | "Ꮇ" U+13B7 Cherokee Letter Lu |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ꮇ" U+13B7 Cherokee Letter Lu |
| 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 |