U+10D9 "კ" Georgian Letter Kan Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
კ
U+10D9 "კ" Georgian Letter Kan is a lowercase letter in the modern Georgian script, representing the voiceless velar plosive sound /kʼ/, pronounced with a sharp, ejective force. It is part of the Georgian alphabet, which has been used to write the Georgian language since at least the 5th century CE. In contemporary usage, this character appears in typographic contexts and digital text encoding to accurately represent Georgian words and names. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent cross-platform representation and preservation of Georgian linguistic heritage in electronic documents and communications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10D9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Georgian Letter Kan |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Georgian Small Letter Kan |
| Block | Georgian |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | კ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | კ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x83 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x10D9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000010D9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u10d9 |
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 | "Კ" U+1C99 Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Kan |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Კ" U+1C99 Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Kan |
| 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 |