What Ꮇ means
It represents the Cherokee syllable lu inside a word. Read it as part of the surrounding Cherokee word, not as an English letter or a word by itself.
Sequoyah developed the Cherokee syllabary in 1815–1821 to write spoken Cherokee. A 2019 reanalysis rejected Red Bird River Shelter as an early specimen, making 1821 the safer working date for the completed system. In 1828, the Cherokee Phoenix printed Cherokee alongside English, while writing at Manitou Cave recorded stickball ceremonies and spiritual messages.
The printed forms were reshaped from manuscript forms, which helps explain why this one resembles Latin M. Cherokee syllabics are a separate writing system; reports that the success of Cherokee writing influenced James Evans's later Cree syllabics remain a qualified historical connection.
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Who writes Ꮇ
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does Ꮇ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Cherokee block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find Ꮇ
- Also called
- lu
- Search it as
- Cherokee lu · Cherokee syllable lu · Cherokee syllabary · Cherokee M · Cherokee keyboard · Cherokee font
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Ꮇ\13B7Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.