U+ABBF "ꮿ" Cherokee Small Letter Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꮿ
U+ABBF "ꮿ" Cherokee Small Letter Ya is a lowercase letter used in the modern Cherokee syllabary, representing the syllable sound "ya" as spoken in the Cherokee language. It was added to the Unicode standard as part of the Cherokee Small Letters block, which provides casing distinctions for the traditionally unicase Cherokee script, aiding in typography and digital text processing for the Cherokee community. This specific character, when rendered, typically appears as a smaller or lowercase version of its uppercase counterpart, supporting proper capitalization in written Cherokee.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ABBF |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cherokee Small Letter Ya |
| Block | Cherokee Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꮿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꮿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAE 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xABBF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ABBF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uabbf |
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 | "Ꮿ" U+13EF Cherokee Letter Ya |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮿ" U+13EF Cherokee Letter Ya |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꮿ" U+13EF Cherokee Letter Ya |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꮿ" U+13EF Cherokee Letter Ya |
| Simple Case Folding | "Ꮿ" U+13EF Cherokee Letter Ya |
| Case Folding | "Ꮿ" U+13EF Cherokee Letter Ya |
| 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 | "Ꮿ" U+13EF Cherokee Letter Ya |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "Ꮿ" U+13EF Cherokee Letter Ya |
| 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 |