U+10D6 "ზ" Georgian Letter Zen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ზ
U+10D6 "ზ" Georgian Letter Zen is the tenth letter of the modern Georgian alphabet, used in the Georgian language and representing the voiced alveolar fricative sound /z/. Its design features a single, fluid stroke that curves downward and then loops back, giving it a distinct, elegant shape. In the traditional Georgian numerical system, this character held the numeric value of seven, and it remains an essential component of written Georgian, appearing in historical manuscripts, modern texts, and digital communications across the Republic of Georgia.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10D6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Georgian Letter Zen |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Georgian Small Letter Zen |
| Block | Georgian |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ზ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ზ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x83 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x10D6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000010D6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u10d6 |
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 | "Ზ" U+1C96 Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Zen |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ზ" U+1C96 Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Zen |
| 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 |