U+AB8F "ꮏ" Cherokee Small Letter Hna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꮏ
U+AB8F "ꮏ" Cherokee Small Letter Hna is a lowercase glyph from the Cherokee syllabary, representing the sound "hna" within the Cherokee language. It is part of the Cherokee Small Letters block, a relatively recent addition to Unicode that enables the representation of the language in modern digital text while maintaining its traditional phonetic structure. This character is historically linked to the syllabary developed by Sequoyah in the early 19th century, which revolutionized Cherokee literacy. Its encoding ensures that Cherokee speakers and writers can use proper casing and formatting in electronic documents, helping to preserve and promote the ongoing use of the language in digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB8F |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter Hna |
| Block | Cherokee Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꮏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꮏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAE 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB8F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB8F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab8f |
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 | "Ꮏ" U+13BF Cherokee Letter Hna |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮏ" U+13BF Cherokee Letter Hna |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꮏ" U+13BF Cherokee Letter Hna |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮏ" U+13BF Cherokee Letter Hna |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ꮏ" U+13BF Cherokee Letter Hna |
| Case Folding | "Ꮏ" U+13BF Cherokee Letter Hna |
| 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 | "Ꮏ" U+13BF Cherokee Letter Hna |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ꮏ" U+13BF Cherokee Letter Hna |
| 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 |