U+ABA5 "ꮥ" Cherokee Small Letter De Unicode Character
U+ABA5 "ꮥ" Cherokee Small Letter De is a glyph representing the lowercase version of the Cherokee syllable "De," which corresponds to the sound /de/ in the Cherokee language. This character belongs to the Cherokee script, a syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the early 19th century, and is part of the Unicode block dedicated to Cherokee letters. Its uppercase counterpart is U+13B5 "Ꮅ" Cherokee Letter De. In modern usage, this small letter is employed in written Cherokee to denote the syllable with a lowercase appearance, typically in contexts such as bilingual texts or when a distinction between uppercase and lowercase forms is desired, though the Cherokee script traditionally does not have a case distinction, as case forms were introduced later for digital typographic purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ABA5 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter De |
| Block | Cherokee Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꮥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꮥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAE 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xABA5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ABA5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaba5 |
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 | "Ꮥ" U+13D5 Cherokee Letter De |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮥ" U+13D5 Cherokee Letter De |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꮥ" U+13D5 Cherokee Letter De |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮥ" U+13D5 Cherokee Letter De |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ꮥ" U+13D5 Cherokee Letter De |
| Case Folding | "Ꮥ" U+13D5 Cherokee Letter De |
| 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 | "Ꮥ" U+13D5 Cherokee Letter De |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ꮥ" U+13D5 Cherokee Letter De |
| 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 |