U+10E7 "ყ" Georgian Letter Qar Unicode Character

U+10E7 "ყ" Georgian Letter Qar is the 21st letter of the modern Georgian alphabet, primarily used to represent a uvular ejective consonant sound /qʼ/ in the Georgian language. It belongs to the Mkhedruli script, the standard writing system for Georgian, and is part of Unicode's Georgian block, which was introduced in version 1.1 in 1993. Historically, the letter derives from the earlier Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri scripts, preserving its phonetic function across centuries of Georgian literary tradition. In contemporary usage, "ყ" appears in words related to everyday vocabulary, such as "ყველი" (cheese) and "ყური" (ear), and holds cultural significance as a distinctive phonetic feature of the language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10E7
Version Added	1.1
Name	Georgian Letter Qar
Unicode 1.0 Name	Georgian Small Letter Qar
Block	Georgian
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ყ
HTML Hex Encoding	ყ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x83 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding	0x10E7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000010E7
C/C++/Java Escape	\u10e7

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	"Ყ" U+1CA7 Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Qar
Uppercase Code Point	"Ყ" U+1CA7 Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Qar
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