Cherokee (Unicode block)

See also: Cherokee Supplement (Unicode block)

Cherokee is a Unicode block containing the syllabic characters for writing the Cherokee language. When Cherokee was first added to Unicode in version 3.0 it was treated as a unicameral alphabet, but in version 8.0 it was redefined as a bicameral script. The Cherokee block (U+13A0 to U+13FF) contains all the uppercase letters plus six lowercase letters. The Cherokee Supplement block (U+AB70 to U+ABBF), added in version 8.0, contains the rest of the lowercase letters. For backwards compatibility, the Unicode case folding algorithm—which usually converts a string to lowercase characters—maps Cherokee characters to uppercase.^[3]

Cherokee[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U+13Ax

Ꭰ

Ꭱ

Ꭲ

Ꭳ

Ꭴ

Ꭵ

Ꭶ

Ꭷ

Ꭸ

Ꭹ

Ꭺ

Ꭻ

Ꭼ

Ꭽ

Ꭾ

Ꭿ

U+13Bx

Ꮀ

Ꮁ

Ꮂ

Ꮃ

Ꮄ

Ꮅ

Ꮆ

Ꮇ

Ꮈ

Ꮉ

Ꮊ

Ꮋ

Ꮌ

Ꮍ

Ꮎ

Ꮏ

U+13Cx

Ꮐ

Ꮑ

Ꮒ

Ꮓ

Ꮔ

Ꮕ

Ꮖ

Ꮗ

Ꮘ

Ꮙ

Ꮚ

Ꮛ

Ꮜ

Ꮝ

Ꮞ

Ꮟ

U+13Dx

Ꮠ

Ꮡ

Ꮢ

Ꮣ

Ꮤ

Ꮥ

Ꮦ

Ꮧ

Ꮨ

Ꮩ

Ꮪ

Ꮫ

Ꮬ

Ꮭ

Ꮮ

Ꮯ

U+13Ex

Ꮰ

Ꮱ

Ꮲ

Ꮳ

Ꮴ

Ꮵ

Ꮶ

Ꮷ

Ꮸ

Ꮹ

Ꮺ

Ꮻ

Ꮼ

Ꮽ

Ꮾ

Ꮿ

U+13Fx

Ᏸ

Ᏹ

Ᏺ

Ᏻ

Ᏼ

Ᏽ

ᏸ

ᏹ

ᏺ

ᏻ

ᏼ

ᏽ

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Cherokee
Range	U+13A0..U+13FF (96 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Cherokee
Major alphabets	Cherokee
Assigned	92 code points
Unused	4 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.0 (1999)	85 (+85)
8.0 (2015)	92 (+7)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Cherokee block:

Version	Final code points[a]	Count	UTC ID	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
3.0	U+13A0..13F4	85	UTC/1991-102			McGowan, Rick (1991-10-24), Cherokee block description and chart draft
			UTC/1995-027		N1172	Everson, Michael (1995-03-14), Proposal for encoding the Cherokee script
			UTC/1995-xxx			"Cherokee Proposal", Unicode Technical Committee Meeting #65, Minutes, 1995-06-02
			UTC/1996-016			Gourd, Charles (1996-03-05), Cherokee Syllabary
			UTC/1996-015			Everson, Michael (1996-03-08), Re: Cherokee Nation's ordering
			UTC/1996-017			Everson, Michael (1996-03-14), Proposal for encoding the Cherokee script
					N1362	Initial comments on encoding Cherokee into ISO/IEC 10646, 1996-04-01
				X3L2/96-034	N1356	Suignard, Michel (1996-04-17), US position concerning the referenced proposal to encode the Cherokee script
					N1353	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-06-25), "8.11", Draft minutes of WG2 Copenhagen Meeting # 30
			UTC/1996-027.2			Greenfield, Steve (1996-07-01), "B. Cherokee", UTC #69 Minutes (PART 2)
					N1453	Ksar, Mike; Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1996-12-06), "8.12", WG 2 Minutes - Quebec Meeting 31
					N1476	Paterson, Bruce (1996-12-09), Draft pDAM 12 - Cherokee
					N1596	Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 2807, Combined PDAM Registration and FPDAM ballot: Amendment 12: Cherokee Script, 1997-06-17
				L2/97-288	N1603	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "6.4", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997
				L2/98-130		Text for FDAM ballot ISO 10646 Amendment 12 - Cherokee, 1998-03-05
				L2/14-026		Moore, Lisa (2014-02-17), "Motion 138-M2", UTC #138 Minutes, Any proposal to make the Cherokee script bicameral, should make the existing Cherokee letters uppercase. The UTC deems that this choice would provide better backward compatibility with existing implementations.
8.0	U+13F5, 13F8..13FD	7		L2/13-190	N4487	Everson, Michael; Feeling, Durbin (2013-10-24), Proposal for the addition of Cherokee characters
				L2/13-210		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-10-31), "3", Recommendations to UTC #137 November 2013 on Script Proposals
				L2/14-064R	N4537R	Everson, Michael (2014-02-25), Revised proposal for the addition of Cherokee characters
				L2/14-100		Moore, Lisa (2014-05-13), "Consensus 139-C13", UTC #139 Minutes
				L2/14-187		Whistler, Ken (2014-07-31), Cherokee casing decision may break identifier syntax
					N4553 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.07a", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA
				L2/15-214		Lunde, Ken (2015-07-30), Phoreus Cherokee type specimen sheet
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names