U+10B5 "Ⴕ" Georgian Capital Letter Khar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+10B5 "Ⴕ" Georgian Capital Letter Khar is the uppercase form of the twenty-seventh letter of the Mkhedruli script, historically used in the Asomtavruli style for titles and emphasis in the Georgian language. It represents a voiceless velar fricative sound, similar to the German "ch" in "Bach," and is a fundamental element in Georgian orthography, appearing in classical manuscripts and modern inscriptions alike. This character has a distinctive angular shape with an open top and a curved lower stroke, and it belongs to the Georgian Supplement block of Unicode, which preserves the ancient monumental script alongside its modern counterparts for digital and textual compatibility.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Georgian Capital Letter Khar |
| Block | Georgian |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⴕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⴕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x82 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x10B5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000010B5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u10b5 |
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 | "ⴕ" U+2D15 Georgian Small Letter Khar |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⴕ" U+2D15 Georgian Small Letter Khar |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⴕ" U+2D15 Georgian Small Letter Khar |
| Case Folding | "ⴕ" U+2D15 Georgian Small Letter Khar |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⴕ" U+2D15 Georgian Small Letter Khar |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⴕ" U+2D15 Georgian Small Letter Khar |
| 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 |