U+AB88 "ꮈ" Cherokee Small Letter Lv Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꮈ
U+AB88 "ꮈ" Cherokee Small Letter Lv is a lowercase glyph in the Cherokee syllabary representing the syllable pronounced "lv," which corresponds to a nasalized vowel sound similar to "luh" in English. It was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Cherokee Small Letters block in version 8.0, released in 2015, to support the full representation of the written Cherokee language in case-sensitive contexts. This character complements its uppercase counterpart and aids in proper typographic rendering for modern digital text, preserving the linguistic heritage of the Cherokee people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB88 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter Lv |
| Block | Cherokee Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꮈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꮈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAE 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB88 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab88 |
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 | "Ꮈ" U+13B8 Cherokee Letter Lv |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮈ" U+13B8 Cherokee Letter Lv |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꮈ" U+13B8 Cherokee Letter Lv |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮈ" U+13B8 Cherokee Letter Lv |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ꮈ" U+13B8 Cherokee Letter Lv |
| Case Folding | "Ꮈ" U+13B8 Cherokee Letter Lv |
| 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 | "Ꮈ" U+13B8 Cherokee Letter Lv |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ꮈ" U+13B8 Cherokee Letter Lv |
| 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 |