CHEROKEE LETTER LE character

CHEROKEE LETTER LE
U+13B4
5044
Ꮄ
Ꮄ
Lu (Uppercase Letter)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Cherokee
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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CHEROKEE LETTER LE is an uppercase letter from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of CHEROKEE LETTER LE is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Uppercase Letter (Lu) refers to characters that are uppercase in a bicameral script. These include uppercase letters in scripts like Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and others. Uppercase letters are typically used at the beginning of sentences or proper nouns, and they are distinct from lowercase letters.

This character belongs to the Cherokee block. The Cherokee block contains characters used in the Cherokee syllabary, which is a script developed in the early 19th century by the Cherokee silversmith Sequoyah. The syllabary consists of 85 characters, each representing a syllable rather than an individual phoneme. The Cherokee script is unique in that it was developed by a single individual and was rapidly adopted by the Cherokee Nation, leading to widespread literacy in the 19th century. The block includes all characters needed to write the Cherokee language, which is still used today, particularly in cultural and educational contexts..