U+ABAF "ꮯ" Cherokee Small Letter Tli Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꮯ
U+ABAF "ꮯ" Cherokee Small Letter Tli is a lowercase letter used in the modern orthography of the Cherokee language, representing the syllable sound "tli" as spoken in Cherokee speech. This character belongs to the Cherokee block of the Unicode standard, which was added to support the syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the early 19th century, though the lowercase forms like this one were introduced later for bilingual typography. While not used in traditional Cherokee writing, which historically employed only uppercase style letters, the small letter Tli aids in contemporary digital text processing, such as distinguishing mixed case for proper nouns or sentence beginnings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ABAF |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter Tli |
| Block | Cherokee Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꮯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꮯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAE 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xABAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ABAF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uabaf |
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 | "Ꮯ" U+13DF Cherokee Letter Tli |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮯ" U+13DF Cherokee Letter Tli |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꮯ" U+13DF Cherokee Letter Tli |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮯ" U+13DF Cherokee Letter Tli |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ꮯ" U+13DF Cherokee Letter Tli |
| Case Folding | "Ꮯ" U+13DF Cherokee Letter Tli |
| 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 | "Ꮯ" U+13DF Cherokee Letter Tli |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ꮯ" U+13DF Cherokee Letter Tli |
| 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 |