U+10B9 "Ⴙ" Georgian Capital Letter Chin Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+10B9 "Ⴙ" Georgian Capital Letter Chin is a letter from the Mkhedruli script, which is the modern Georgian alphabet used for writing the Georgian language. This character represents the sound /tʃʰ/, similar to the "ch" in "church" but aspirated, and it is the capital form of its lowercase counterpart "ⴹ" in the Unicode encoding scheme. Historically, uppercase letters in Georgian were rarely used in traditional writing, as the script typically employed a unicase system, but they were added to Unicode for compatibility with other writing systems and for stylistic or typographic purposes. The letter Chin is one of the 33 letters in the modern Georgian alphabet, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately represent Georgian script across different platforms and devices.

General Properties

Code Point U+10B9
Version Added 1.1
Name Georgian Capital Letter Chin
Block Georgian
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding Ⴙ
HTML Hex Encoding Ⴙ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x82 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x10B9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000010B9
C/C++/Java Escape \u10b9

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 "ⴙ" U+2D19 Georgian Small Letter Chin
Lowercase Code Point "ⴙ" U+2D19 Georgian Small Letter Chin
Simple Case Folding "ⴙ" U+2D19 Georgian Small Letter Chin
Case Folding "ⴙ" U+2D19 Georgian Small Letter Chin
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ⴙ" U+2D19 Georgian Small Letter Chin
NFKC Simple Casefold "ⴙ" U+2D19 Georgian Small Letter Chin
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