U+AB99 "ꮙ" Cherokee Small Letter Quo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꮙ
U+AB99 "ꮙ" Cherokee Small Letter Quo is a character from the Cherokee syllabary, specifically representing the lowercase form of the syllable "quo," which corresponds to the sound /kʷo/ in the Cherokee language. This character is part of the Unicode block for Cherokee, covering the range U+AB70 to U+ABBF, which was added to support the standardized writing system developed by Sequoyah in the early 19th century. It is used in modern Cherokee orthography for writing the language, primarily in printed and digital texts, and is often paired with its uppercase counterpart, U+13B9 "Ꮉ" Cherokee Letter Quo, in proper capitalization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB99 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter Quo |
| Block | Cherokee Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꮙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꮙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAE 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB99 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB99 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab99 |
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 | "Ꮙ" U+13C9 Cherokee Letter Quo |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮙ" U+13C9 Cherokee Letter Quo |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꮙ" U+13C9 Cherokee Letter Quo |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮙ" U+13C9 Cherokee Letter Quo |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ꮙ" U+13C9 Cherokee Letter Quo |
| Case Folding | "Ꮙ" U+13C9 Cherokee Letter Quo |
| 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 | "Ꮙ" U+13C9 Cherokee Letter Quo |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ꮙ" U+13C9 Cherokee Letter Quo |
| 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 |