What Ꮽ means
In Cherokee writing, Ꮽ represents the syllable romanized as wu.
Archaeological traces of Sequoyah’s experiments date to the early nineteenth century; he developed the syllabary from 1815 to 1821. The Cherokee Nation adopted it in 1825.
Print forms were adjusted for metal type by 1827; the bilingual Cherokee Phoenix newspaper began in 1828. In the 21st century, the syllabary appears in education and on public signs.
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Who writes Ꮽ
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Questions people ask
1Why does Ꮽ 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 Ꮽ
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- Ꮽ · wu · Cherokee syllabary · Cherokee keyboard · Cherokee font
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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\13EDCherokee keyboard
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Transliteration tool
A Cherokee transliteration tool maps Latin wu to Ꮽ.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
Ꮽ
HTML hex
Ꮽ
CSS content
content: "\13ED";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E1%8F%AD
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.