U+10BE "Ⴞ" Georgian Capital Letter Xan Unicode Character

U+10BE "Ⴞ" Georgian Capital Letter Xan is a letter from the Mkhedruli script, representing the voiceless velar fricative sound /x/ as in the Scottish "loch." It is used in the modern Georgian alphabet, where it corresponds to the lowercase form "ხ," and appears in historical and religious Georgian texts. As part of the Unicode standard, this character supports the digital preservation and representation of the Georgian language, which is the official language of Georgia.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⴞ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⴞ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x82 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x10BE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000010BE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u10be

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	"ⴞ" U+2D1E Georgian Small Letter Xan
Lowercase Code Point	"ⴞ" U+2D1E Georgian Small Letter Xan
Simple Case Folding	"ⴞ" U+2D1E Georgian Small Letter Xan
Case Folding	"ⴞ" U+2D1E Georgian Small Letter Xan
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⴞ" U+2D1E Georgian Small Letter Xan
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⴞ" U+2D1E Georgian Small Letter Xan
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