U+ABBD "ꮽ" Cherokee Small Letter Wu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꮽ
U+ABBD "ꮽ" Cherokee Small Letter Wu is a glyph belonging to the Cherokee script, specifically representing the syllable "wu" in its lowercase or small letter form. It is part of the Cherokee block within the Unicode standard, which was established to preserve and digitally encode the Cherokee language, originally developed by Sequoyah in the early 19th century. This character is used in modern written Cherokee to denote the phonetic sound of "wu" in a case-sensitive context, as the Cherokee syllabary traditionally did not have case distinctions but the Unicode encoding includes both uppercase and lowercase forms for typographic flexibility.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ABBD |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter Wu |
| Block | Cherokee Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꮽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꮽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAE 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xABBD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ABBD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uabbd |
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 | "Ꮽ" U+13ED Cherokee Letter Wu |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮽ" U+13ED Cherokee Letter Wu |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꮽ" U+13ED Cherokee Letter Wu |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮽ" U+13ED Cherokee Letter Wu |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ꮽ" U+13ED Cherokee Letter Wu |
| Case Folding | "Ꮽ" U+13ED Cherokee Letter Wu |
| 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 | "Ꮽ" U+13ED Cherokee Letter Wu |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ꮽ" U+13ED Cherokee Letter Wu |
| 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 |