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Ᏸ

cherokee letter ye

Cherokee Letter Ye

Ᏸ is the Cherokee syllabary sign for the syllable ye. It contributes a sound inside Cherokee words; on its own, it has no English translation. The syllabary was developed by Sequoyah and later used in Cherokee government, newspapers, religious books, and language teaching.

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What Ᏸ means

It represents the syllable “ye” in Cherokee writing. It is not a standalone English word.

The Cherokee syllabary is a writing system in which each sign represents a syllable. Sequoyah developed it during 1815–1821. One disputed archaeological interpretation reads inscriptions at Red Bird River Shelter as experiments with the syllabary.

Sequoyah’s system let Cherokee speakers record their language and communicate across distance. It came to be used in government, the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper, religious books, and language teaching.

Part of the collection

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Cherokee Syllabary

Who writes Ᏸ

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Don't confuse it with

Greek Small Letter Beta

Greek small beta resembles Cherokee Ye in many fonts; the two are different letters and get swapped in copied text.

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Latin Small Letter Beta

Latin small letter beta is a Latin-script letter that looks like Cherokee Ye, a risk in mixed-script text.

Latin Small Letter Sharp S

Latin small sharp s has a similar shape to Cherokee Ye and is a known lookalike in some fonts.

Worth knowing

Cherokee writing may have influenced James Evans when he developed Cree syllabics. The two systems are related historically, but their signs are not interchangeable.

Questions people ask

Why does Ᏸ 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.

How to type or find Ᏸ

Also called: ye syllable
Search it as: Ᏸ · Cherokee ye · Cherokee syllabary · Cherokee keyboard
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

Windows (Word)

⎇Alt+XType 13F0, then AltX to get Ᏸ.

Windows

⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).

macOS

⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cherokee letter ye”.

Linux

⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 13f0, then Enter or Space.

HTML

Ᏸ

CSS

\13F0

Cherokee keyboard

Use a Cherokee keyboard or input method; layouts differ. If Ᏸ appears as a box, the active font may not support Cherokee.

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

Ᏸ

HTML hex

Ᏸ

CSS content

content: "\13F0";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%E1%8F%B0

On screen

Code points

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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.

Families this belongs to

American scripts1,050 symbols

Ꭰ Ꭱ Ꭲ Ꭳ Ꭴ Ꭵ Ꭶ Ꭷ Ꭸ Ꭹ Ꭺ Ꭻ