U+10A1 "Ⴁ" Georgian Capital Letter Ban Unicode Character

U+10A1 "Ⴁ" Georgian Capital Letter Ban is the second letter of the Georgian Mkhedruli script, representing the sound "b" and used in the uppercase form of the Georgian alphabet primarily for historical or decorative purposes. It corresponds to the modern lowercase "ბ" and appears in ancient manuscripts and ecclesiastical texts, but in contemporary Georgian writing, the case distinction is rarely maintained, making this character more common in scholarly or stylized contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A1
Version Added	1.1
Name	Georgian Capital Letter Ban
Block	Georgian
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⴁ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⴁ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x82 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x10A1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000010A1
C/C++/Java Escape	\u10a1

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"ⴁ" U+2D01 Georgian Small Letter Ban
Lowercase Code Point	"ⴁ" U+2D01 Georgian Small Letter Ban
Simple Case Folding	"ⴁ" U+2D01 Georgian Small Letter Ban
Case Folding	"ⴁ" U+2D01 Georgian Small Letter Ban
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⴁ" U+2D01 Georgian Small Letter Ban
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⴁ" U+2D01 Georgian Small Letter Ban
Script	Georgian
Script Extensions	Georgian
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Upper