U+ABAB "ꮫ" Cherokee Small Letter Dv Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꮫ
U+ABAB "ꮫ" Cherokee Small Letter Dv is part of the Cherokee syllabary, a writing system developed in the early 19th century by Sequoyah to represent the spoken Cherokee language. This specific character encodes the small (lowercase) form of the syllable "dv," which is pronounced as a nasalized "duh" sound, and it belongs to the U+AB70–U+ABBF block of Cherokee Small Letters, a range added to Unicode to allow for mixed-case text representation. As a modern digital encoding, U+ABAB enables precise rendering of Cherokee in electronic documents and software, helping to preserve and promote the language in digital contexts while distinguishing it from its uppercase counterpart, U+13AB "Ꭻ".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ABAB |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter Dv |
| Block | Cherokee Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꮫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꮫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAE 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xABAB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ABAB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uabab |
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 | "Ꮫ" U+13DB Cherokee Letter Dv |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮫ" U+13DB Cherokee Letter Dv |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꮫ" U+13DB Cherokee Letter Dv |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮫ" U+13DB Cherokee Letter Dv |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ꮫ" U+13DB Cherokee Letter Dv |
| Case Folding | "Ꮫ" U+13DB Cherokee Letter Dv |
| 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 | "Ꮫ" U+13DB Cherokee Letter Dv |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ꮫ" U+13DB Cherokee Letter Dv |
| 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 |