U+AB89 "ꮉ" Cherokee Small Letter Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꮉ
U+AB89 "ꮉ" Cherokee Small Letter Ma is a lowercase letter in the Cherokee syllabary, representing the syllable pronounced "ma." This character is part of the Cherokee Small Letters block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to support the modern, mixed-case writing system of the Cherokee language. As a small letter, it is typically used in conjunction with its uppercase counterpart, U+13A9 "Ꭹ" Cherokee Letter Ma, to form the case pair for this sound, allowing for proper capitalization in Cherokee text. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitize the Cherokee language, enabling accurate representation in electronic documents and communications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB89 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter Ma |
| Block | Cherokee Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꮉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꮉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAE 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB89 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB89 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab89 |
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 | "Ꮉ" U+13B9 Cherokee Letter Ma |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮉ" U+13B9 Cherokee Letter Ma |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꮉ" U+13B9 Cherokee Letter Ma |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮉ" U+13B9 Cherokee Letter Ma |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ꮉ" U+13B9 Cherokee Letter Ma |
| Case Folding | "Ꮉ" U+13B9 Cherokee Letter Ma |
| 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 | "Ꮉ" U+13B9 Cherokee Letter Ma |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ꮉ" U+13B9 Cherokee Letter Ma |
| 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 |