U+10B8 "Ⴘ" Georgian Capital Letter Shin Unicode Character

U+10B8 "Ⴘ" Georgian Capital Letter Shin is used in the Georgian script to represent the twenty-eighth letter of the Mkhedruli alphabet, where it corresponds to the sound “sh” as in “ship.” This uppercase form is part of the Georgian block within Unicode, employed historically in the Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri scripts, though in modern Georgian writing the capital form is typically not used in everyday text, being reserved for decorative or titular purposes in certain stylistic contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10B8
Version Added	1.1
Name	Georgian Capital Letter Shin
Block	Georgian
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⴘ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⴘ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x82 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x10B8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000010B8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u10b8

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	"ⴘ" U+2D18 Georgian Small Letter Shin
Lowercase Code Point	"ⴘ" U+2D18 Georgian Small Letter Shin
Simple Case Folding	"ⴘ" U+2D18 Georgian Small Letter Shin
Case Folding	"ⴘ" U+2D18 Georgian Small Letter Shin
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⴘ" U+2D18 Georgian Small Letter Shin
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⴘ" U+2D18 Georgian Small Letter Shin
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