Cherokee Supplement
RangeU+AB70..U+ABBF
(80 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCherokee
Major alphabetsCherokee
Assigned80 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
8.0 (2015)80 (+80)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Cherokee Supplement 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 Supplement block contains lowercase letters only, whereas the Cherokee block contains all the uppercase letters, together with six 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 Supplement[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+AB7x ꭰ ꭱ ꭲ ꭳ ꭴ ꭵ ꭶ ꭷ ꭸ ꭹ ꭺ ꭻ ꭼ ꭽ ꭾ ꭿ
U+AB8x ꮀ ꮁ ꮂ ꮃ ꮄ ꮅ ꮆ ꮇ ꮈ ꮉ ꮊ ꮋ ꮌ ꮍ ꮎ ꮏ
U+AB9x ꮐ ꮑ ꮒ ꮓ ꮔ ꮕ ꮖ ꮗ ꮘ ꮙ ꮚ ꮛ ꮜ ꮝ ꮞ ꮟ
U+ABAx ꮠ ꮡ ꮢ ꮣ ꮤ ꮥ ꮦ ꮧ ꮨ ꮩ ꮪ ꮫ ꮬ ꮭ ꮮ ꮯ
U+ABBx ꮰ ꮱ ꮲ ꮳ ꮴ ꮵ ꮶ ꮷ ꮸ ꮹ ꮺ ꮻ ꮼ ꮽ ꮾ ꮿ
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1

History

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

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
8.0 U+AB70..ABBF 80 L2/13-200 Moore, Lisa (2013-11-18), "C.6.1", UTC #137 Minutes
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
N4553 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.07b", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ^ "The Unicode Standard Version 13.0 – Core Specification" (PDF). The Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
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