U+ABBA "ꮺ" Cherokee Small Letter We Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꮺ
U+ABBA "ꮺ" Cherokee Small Letter We is a lowercase character in the Cherokee syllabary, representing the phonetic sound "we" in the Cherokee language. This character is part of the Unicode standard's Cherokee block, which was added to support the writing system developed by Sequoyah in the early 19th century for the Cherokee Nation. The small letter "ꮺ" is visually distinct from its uppercase counterpart U+13BA "Ꮊ" and is used in modern Cherokee writing, particularly in digital contexts, to denote the same syllable in a lowercase form, aiding in proper text rendering and linguistic documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ABBA |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter We |
| Block | Cherokee Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꮺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꮺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAE 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xABBA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ABBA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uabba |
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 | "Ꮺ" U+13EA Cherokee Letter We |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮺ" U+13EA Cherokee Letter We |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꮺ" U+13EA Cherokee Letter We |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮺ" U+13EA Cherokee Letter We |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ꮺ" U+13EA Cherokee Letter We |
| Case Folding | "Ꮺ" U+13EA Cherokee Letter We |
| 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 | "Ꮺ" U+13EA Cherokee Letter We |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ꮺ" U+13EA Cherokee Letter We |
| 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 |