What Ꮀ means
It represents the Cherokee syllable ho. This is a sound unit, not a word with a one-to-one English translation. In Cherokee writing, it appears as part of words.
When did Cherokee writing begin?
The Cherokee syllabary was developed in the early nineteenth century to write spoken Cherokee. A proposed older cave-mark record associated with Sequoyah remains debated. By 1828, the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper used the syllabary at New Echota for news and other writing.
Printed forms were adapted for type, so some shapes resemble Latin letters without taking on English sounds. Cherokee writing's success may have influenced James Evans's later Cree syllabics.
How do I type Ꮀ?
Use a keyboard layout that supports Cherokee. Layouts vary, so there is no single Latin-key recipe for this syllable.
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Who writes Ꮀ
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does Ꮀ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find Ꮀ
- Also called
- ho
- Search it as
- Cherokee ho · ho syllable · Cherokee syllabary · Tsalagi · Cherokee keyboard
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Ꮀ\13B0Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.