U+10A9 "Ⴉ" Georgian Capital Letter Kan Unicode Character

U+10A9 "Ⴉ" Georgian Capital Letter Kan is the uppercase form of the letter "kan," the eleventh letter of the Mkhedruli script used to write the Georgian language. This character represents the voiceless velar plosive sound /k/ in modern Georgian and is part of the Unicode block for Georgian script. Its distinctive shape features a vertical stem with a closed loop at the top and a curved lower tail, distinguishing it from other capital letters in the alphabet.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A9
Version Added	1.1
Name	Georgian Capital Letter Kan
Block	Georgian
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⴉ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⴉ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x82 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x10A9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000010A9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u10a9

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	"ⴉ" U+2D09 Georgian Small Letter Kan
Lowercase Code Point	"ⴉ" U+2D09 Georgian Small Letter Kan
Simple Case Folding	"ⴉ" U+2D09 Georgian Small Letter Kan
Case Folding	"ⴉ" U+2D09 Georgian Small Letter Kan
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⴉ" U+2D09 Georgian Small Letter Kan
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⴉ" U+2D09 Georgian Small Letter Kan
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