U+10D0 "ა" Georgian Letter An Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+10D0 "ა" Georgian Letter An is the first letter of the Georgian alphabet, representing the vowel sound [ɑ] in modern Georgian. It belongs to the Mkhedruli script, which is the standard Georgian writing system for the modern Kartvelian language. In the Unicode standard, it is encoded in the Georgian block and serves a fundamental role in both written and digital representation of the language, often appearing at the start of words and in primary positions within the alphabet's traditional order.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10D0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Georgian Letter An |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Georgian Small Letter An |
| Block | Georgian |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ა |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ა |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x83 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x10D0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000010D0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u10d0 |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ა" U+1C90 Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter An |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ა" U+1C90 Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter An |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | OLetter |