What ꭶ means
Read it as the spoken Cherokee syllable ga.
The Cherokee syllabary is a writing system in which each character stands for a spoken syllable. Sequoyah developed it; Unicode dates its development to 1815–1821. In 2011, an archaeological study interpreted marks at Kentucky’s Red Bird River Shelter as possible experiments in creating the script.
By 1828, the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper printed in Cherokee and English, helping connect Cherokee communities spread across the nation. Writing carved in Manitou Cave that year has been interpreted as a ceremonial message to ancestors. As of 2026, Cherokee is still written in Oklahoma and North Carolina. Older Cherokee writing had no case distinction; Unicode 8.0 kept the full-height forms as capitals and added lowercase partners, preserving existing font designs.
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Who writes ꭶ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꭶ appear as a box?
Your font may lack this lowercase form. Unicode 18.0 describes the older full-height Cherokee forms as more widely supported, so they may display where ꭶ does not.
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How to type or find ꭶ
- Search it as
- Cherokee ga · lowercase Cherokee · Cherokee keyboard · type Cherokee ga
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ꭶ\AB76Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.