U+AB9D "ꮝ" Cherokee Small Letter S Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꮝ
U+AB9D "ꮝ" Cherokee Small Letter S is a lowercase representation of a consonant sound in the Cherokee syllabary, specifically corresponding to the syllable pronounced as "s." This character is part of the Cherokee block in Unicode, which was added to support the Cherokee language's unique writing system originally developed by Sequoyah in the early 19th century. In modern usage, the small letter form appears in bilingual texts, educational materials, and digital communication to distinguish lowercase usage from its uppercase counterpart, U+13BD "Ꮍ," helping to preserve the orthographic conventions of this endangered Indigenous language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB9D |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter S |
| Block | Cherokee Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꮝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꮝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAE 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB9D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB9D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab9d |
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 | "Ꮝ" U+13CD Cherokee Letter S |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮝ" U+13CD Cherokee Letter S |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꮝ" U+13CD Cherokee Letter S |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮝ" U+13CD Cherokee Letter S |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ꮝ" U+13CD Cherokee Letter S |
| Case Folding | "Ꮝ" U+13CD Cherokee Letter S |
| 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 | "Ꮝ" U+13CD Cherokee Letter S |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ꮝ" U+13CD Cherokee Letter S |
| 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 |