U+AB9C "ꮜ" Cherokee Small Letter Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꮜ
U+AB9C "ꮜ" Cherokee Small Letter Sa is a glyph used in the modern Cherokee syllabary to represent the syllable "sa" in lowercase form, complementing its uppercase counterpart U+13B8 "Ꮈ" and part of the Cherokee language's standardized writing system. It was introduced in Unicode version 8.0 as a member of the Cherokee Small Letters block to support proper casing in bilingual or typographic contexts. The character appears as a distinct geometric shape, with its curved and angled strokes reflecting the script's historical design adapted by Sequoyah in the early 19th century. In digital text, it enables accurate rendering of Cherokee words like "ꮜꭷꭹ" meaning "six," preserving the language's phonetic precision across modern platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB9C |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter Sa |
| Block | Cherokee Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꮜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꮜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAE 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB9C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab9c |
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 | "Ꮜ" U+13CC Cherokee Letter Sa |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮜ" U+13CC Cherokee Letter Sa |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꮜ" U+13CC Cherokee Letter Sa |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮜ" U+13CC Cherokee Letter Sa |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ꮜ" U+13CC Cherokee Letter Sa |
| Case Folding | "Ꮜ" U+13CC Cherokee Letter Sa |
| 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 | "Ꮜ" U+13CC Cherokee Letter Sa |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ꮜ" U+13CC Cherokee Letter Sa |
| 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 |