U+ABA4 "ꮤ" Cherokee Small Letter Ta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꮤ
U+ABA4 "ꮤ" Cherokee Small Letter Ta is a character from the Cherokee syllabary, representing the syllable "ta" in the Cherokee language. It is categorized as a lowercase letter, with its uppercase counterpart being U+13A4 "Ꭴ" Cherokee Letter Ta. This character is used in modern Cherokee orthography for writing the Cherokee language, which is part of the Iroquoian language family and is spoken primarily in Oklahoma and North Carolina. The "Small Letter" designation indicates its role in the standard Unicode casing system, where it typically appears in lowercase text, and it was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Cherokee block to support digital representation of the Cherokee writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ABA4 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter Ta |
| Block | Cherokee Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꮤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꮤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAE 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xABA4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ABA4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaba4 |
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 | "Ꮤ" U+13D4 Cherokee Letter Ta |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮤ" U+13D4 Cherokee Letter Ta |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꮤ" U+13D4 Cherokee Letter Ta |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮤ" U+13D4 Cherokee Letter Ta |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ꮤ" U+13D4 Cherokee Letter Ta |
| Case Folding | "Ꮤ" U+13D4 Cherokee Letter Ta |
| 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 | "Ꮤ" U+13D4 Cherokee Letter Ta |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ꮤ" U+13D4 Cherokee Letter Ta |
| 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 |