The Cherokee range was introduced with version 3.0 of the Unicode Standard. Cherokee is an Amerind language used by the Cherokee people of the southern USA; it was only a spoken language until the script was invented in 1821. You can find out more at the Cherokee Language Lessons page. You can see some Cherokee Unicode on Xenotype’s Unicode Cherokee Sample page.
Microsoft Windows incorporates support for Cherokee Unicode from Windows Vista onwards.
Mac OS X 10.3 includes support for Unicode Cherokee. For users of Macintosh OS X 10.2, a commercial Cherokee Language Kit with a Unicode font and a keyboard layout is available from XenoType Technologies. Free copies are available if you are working to preserve original Cherokee texts.
The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Aboriginal Sans, Aboriginal Serif, Code2000, Digohweli, EversonMono, Free Serif, Hindsight Unicode, Marin, MPH 2B Damase, Plantagenet Cherokee, Quivira and Sun-ExtA; in the Macintosh OS X Unicode font Plantagenet Cherokee; and in the Unix Unicode font ClearlyU.
To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.
If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U13A0.pdf.
Character (decimal) | Decimal | Character (hex) | Hex | Name |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ꭰ | 5024 | Ꭰ | 13A0 | CHEROKEE LETTER A |
Ꭱ | 5025 | Ꭱ | 13A1 | CHEROKEE LETTER E |
Ꭲ | 5026 | Ꭲ | 13A2 | CHEROKEE LETTER I |
Ꭳ | 5027 | Ꭳ | 13A3 | CHEROKEE LETTER O |
Ꭴ | 5028 | Ꭴ | 13A4 | CHEROKEE LETTER U |
Ꭵ | 5029 | Ꭵ | 13A5 | CHEROKEE LETTER V |
Ꭶ | 5030 | Ꭶ | 13A6 | CHEROKEE LETTER GA |
Ꭷ | 5031 | Ꭷ | 13A7 | CHEROKEE LETTER KA |
Ꭸ | 5032 | Ꭸ | 13A8 | CHEROKEE LETTER GE |
Ꭹ | 5033 | Ꭹ | 13A9 | CHEROKEE LETTER GI |
Ꭺ | 5034 | Ꭺ | 13AA | CHEROKEE LETTER GO |
Ꭻ | 5035 | Ꭻ | 13AB | CHEROKEE LETTER GU |
Ꭼ | 5036 | Ꭼ | 13AC | CHEROKEE LETTER GV |
Ꭽ | 5037 | Ꭽ | 13AD | CHEROKEE LETTER HA |
Ꭾ | 5038 | Ꭾ | 13AE | CHEROKEE LETTER HE |
Ꭿ | 5039 | Ꭿ | 13AF | CHEROKEE LETTER HI |
Ꮀ | 5040 | Ꮀ | 13B0 | CHEROKEE LETTER HO |
Ꮁ | 5041 | Ꮁ | 13B1 | CHEROKEE LETTER HU |
Ꮂ | 5042 | Ꮂ | 13B2 | CHEROKEE LETTER HV |
Ꮃ | 5043 | Ꮃ | 13B3 | CHEROKEE LETTER LA |
Ꮄ | 5044 | Ꮄ | 13B4 | CHEROKEE LETTER LE |
Ꮅ | 5045 | Ꮅ | 13B5 | CHEROKEE LETTER LI |
Ꮆ | 5046 | Ꮆ | 13B6 | CHEROKEE LETTER LO |
Ꮇ | 5047 | Ꮇ | 13B7 | CHEROKEE LETTER LU |
Ꮈ | 5048 | Ꮈ | 13B8 | CHEROKEE LETTER LV |
Ꮉ | 5049 | Ꮉ | 13B9 | CHEROKEE LETTER MA |
Ꮊ | 5050 | Ꮊ | 13BA | CHEROKEE LETTER ME |
Ꮋ | 5051 | Ꮋ | 13BB | CHEROKEE LETTER MI |
Ꮌ | 5052 | Ꮌ | 13BC | CHEROKEE LETTER MO |
Ꮍ | 5053 | Ꮍ | 13BD | CHEROKEE LETTER MU |
Ꮎ | 5054 | Ꮎ | 13BE | CHEROKEE LETTER NA |
Ꮏ | 5055 | Ꮏ | 13BF | CHEROKEE LETTER HNA |
Ꮐ | 5056 | Ꮐ | 13C0 | CHEROKEE LETTER NAH |
Ꮑ | 5057 | Ꮑ | 13C1 | CHEROKEE LETTER NE |
Ꮒ | 5058 | Ꮒ | 13C2 | CHEROKEE LETTER NI |
Ꮓ | 5059 | Ꮓ | 13C3 | CHEROKEE LETTER NO |
Ꮔ | 5060 | Ꮔ | 13C4 | CHEROKEE LETTER NU |
Ꮕ | 5061 | Ꮕ | 13C5 | CHEROKEE LETTER NV |
Ꮖ | 5062 | Ꮖ | 13C6 | CHEROKEE LETTER QUA |
Ꮗ | 5063 | Ꮗ | 13C7 | CHEROKEE LETTER QUE |
Ꮘ | 5064 | Ꮘ | 13C8 | CHEROKEE LETTER QUI |
Ꮙ | 5065 | Ꮙ | 13C9 | CHEROKEE LETTER QUO |
Ꮚ | 5066 | Ꮚ | 13CA | CHEROKEE LETTER QUU |
Ꮛ | 5067 | Ꮛ | 13CB | CHEROKEE LETTER QUV |
Ꮜ | 5068 | Ꮜ | 13CC | CHEROKEE LETTER SA |
Ꮝ | 5069 | Ꮝ | 13CD | CHEROKEE LETTER S |
Ꮞ | 5070 | Ꮞ | 13CE | CHEROKEE LETTER SE |
Ꮟ | 5071 | Ꮟ | 13CF | CHEROKEE LETTER SI |
Ꮠ | 5072 | Ꮠ | 13D0 | CHEROKEE LETTER SO |
Ꮡ | 5073 | Ꮡ | 13D1 | CHEROKEE LETTER SU |
Ꮢ | 5074 | Ꮢ | 13D2 | CHEROKEE LETTER SV |
Ꮣ | 5075 | Ꮣ | 13D3 | CHEROKEE LETTER DA |
Ꮤ | 5076 | Ꮤ | 13D4 | CHEROKEE LETTER TA |
Ꮥ | 5077 | Ꮥ | 13D5 | CHEROKEE LETTER DE |
Ꮦ | 5078 | Ꮦ | 13D6 | CHEROKEE LETTER TE |
Ꮧ | 5079 | Ꮧ | 13D7 | CHEROKEE LETTER DI |
Ꮨ | 5080 | Ꮨ | 13D8 | CHEROKEE LETTER TI |
Ꮩ | 5081 | Ꮩ | 13D9 | CHEROKEE LETTER DO |
Ꮪ | 5082 | Ꮪ | 13DA | CHEROKEE LETTER DU |
Ꮫ | 5083 | Ꮫ | 13DB | CHEROKEE LETTER DV |
Ꮬ | 5084 | Ꮬ | 13DC | CHEROKEE LETTER DLA |
Ꮭ | 5085 | Ꮭ | 13DD | CHEROKEE LETTER TLA |
Ꮮ | 5086 | Ꮮ | 13DE | CHEROKEE LETTER TLE |
Ꮯ | 5087 | Ꮯ | 13DF | CHEROKEE LETTER TLI |
Ꮰ | 5088 | Ꮰ | 13E0 | CHEROKEE LETTER TLO |
Ꮱ | 5089 | Ꮱ | 13E1 | CHEROKEE LETTER TLU |
Ꮲ | 5090 | Ꮲ | 13E2 | CHEROKEE LETTER TLV |
Ꮳ | 5091 | Ꮳ | 13E3 | CHEROKEE LETTER TSA |
Ꮴ | 5092 | Ꮴ | 13E4 | CHEROKEE LETTER TSE |
Ꮵ | 5093 | Ꮵ | 13E5 | CHEROKEE LETTER TSI |
Ꮶ | 5094 | Ꮶ | 13E6 | CHEROKEE LETTER TSO |
Ꮷ | 5095 | Ꮷ | 13E7 | CHEROKEE LETTER TSU |
Ꮸ | 5096 | Ꮸ | 13E8 | CHEROKEE LETTER TSV |
Ꮹ | 5097 | Ꮹ | 13E9 | CHEROKEE LETTER WA |
Ꮺ | 5098 | Ꮺ | 13EA | CHEROKEE LETTER WE |
Ꮻ | 5099 | Ꮻ | 13EB | CHEROKEE LETTER WI |
Ꮼ | 5100 | Ꮼ | 13EC | CHEROKEE LETTER WO |
Ꮽ | 5101 | Ꮽ | 13ED | CHEROKEE LETTER WU |
Ꮾ | 5102 | Ꮾ | 13EE | CHEROKEE LETTER WV |
Ꮿ | 5103 | Ꮿ | 13EF | CHEROKEE LETTER YA |
Ᏸ | 5104 | Ᏸ | 13F0 | CHEROKEE LETTER YE |
Ᏹ | 5105 | Ᏹ | 13F1 | CHEROKEE LETTER YI |
Ᏺ | 5106 | Ᏺ | 13F2 | CHEROKEE LETTER YO |
Ᏻ | 5107 | Ᏻ | 13F3 | CHEROKEE LETTER YU |
Ᏼ | 5108 | Ᏼ | 13F4 | CHEROKEE LETTER YV |
Copyright © 1999–2009 Alan Wood
The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 3.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–1999 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData-Latest.txt on the Unicode ftp site (ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in October 1999.
Created 4th October 1999 Last updated 22nd December 2009